Twyla Tharp

79.

Anything before 79 is the olden days.

In the olden days, that would include the 60s.

We did things because we wanted to change the direction the earth rotated.

End of story.

Good luck.

Tell me more about that.

It simply meant that whoever the practitioner was was completely exposed to everything.

Say you're a painter.

You're completely exposed to everything everybody is doing, and you see another way of going about it, and you do that.

Everybody is plugged into that same mechanism, and if they swerve into your area, you shift again.

You have to continuously be altering perception as an artist.

That notion does not seem so relevant these days, perhaps.

Because you could live cheaper.

In the 60s, you could live very cheap.

Now you cannot live very cheaply as an artistic force.

You're paying bills, lots of bills.

I've never been of the persuasion that my understanding was the greatest when I knew nothing as when I knew more.

I've always been of the persuasion that the more you know, the bigger your challenge.

If one looks at lives of artists, for example, Beethoven, take Beethoven early work, take Beethoven late work,