Cecil Taylor quotes
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“To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.”
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“Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like 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.”
-- Cecil TaylorSource : "John Coltrane". Book by Bill Cole, 1976.
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“Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.”
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“Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.”
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“I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.”
-- Cecil TaylorSource : "Innovation, improvisation". Interview with Miya Masaoka, www.miyamasaoka.com. October 25, 2000.
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“To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.”
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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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“You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.”
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“I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.”
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“Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?”
-- Cecil TaylorSource : Interview by Jason Gross, www.furious.com. January 2001.
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“The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.”
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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.”
-- Cecil Taylor
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