Twyla Tharp Quotes

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

Twyla Tharp

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Movie

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Experience

• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Two

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Mistake
  • Laugh
  • Wrong

• Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Mother