Cecil Taylor Quotes
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Cecil Taylor Quotes & Sayings
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We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ...
— Thomas Bernhard
It could be oddly dispiriting, the blank refusal of humankind to even attempt to function responsibly.
— Jojo Moyes
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
— Thomas A. Edison
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
— Beatrix Potter
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
— Cecil Taylor
Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
— Pat Metheny
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
— Steve Lacy
I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.
— Robert Downey Jr.
According to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
— Carter Burwell
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
— Cecil Taylor
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
— Cecil Taylor
These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.
— Ann Coulter
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
— Cecil Taylor
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
— Cecil Taylor
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
— Cecil Taylor