Twyla Tharp Quotes

There is spontaneity to my work.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

My style is very spontaneous.

I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process.

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

I like to work spontaneously.

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

I'd like to be more spontaneous.

I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.