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.
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
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