Cecil Taylor Quotes
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I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
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I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
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Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
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To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
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Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
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Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
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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.
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You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
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In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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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.
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The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
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