
Top 13 Cecil Taylor Quotes
#1. I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
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#2. 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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#3. Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
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#4. Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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#5. Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?
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#6. Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
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#7. To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
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#8. I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
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#9. 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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#10. The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
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#11. You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
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#12. To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
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#13. 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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