We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
Interpretation
Music is expressive and communicates its emotions without needing external explanation or illustration.
Twyla Tharp's quote emphasizes the inherent power of music to convey emotions, stories, and experiences on its own. Rather than requiring visual aids or additional explanations, music has the ability to evoke feelings and connect with listeners directly through its melody, rhythm, and harmony, demonstrating its self-illustrative nature.
In practice
In a presentation about the impact of music on culture.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.
There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.
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