Top 31 Mccoy Tyner Quotes
#1. Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.
Lenny Breau
#2. I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.
John Lurie
#3. Dissection," writes historian Ruth Richardson in Death, Dissection, and the Destitute, "requires in its practitioners the effective suspension or suppression of many normal physical and emotional responses to the wilful mutilation of the body of another human being.
Anonymous
#4. Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.
McCoy Tyner
#5. I try to play what comes naturally at the moment and let it happen.
McCoy Tyner
#6. Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!
John Lydon
#7. With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my practicing when I was younger.
McCoy Tyner
#8. The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.
McCoy Tyner
#9. I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.
McCoy Tyner
#10. A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.
Ben Johnson
#11. Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.
McCoy Tyner
#12. Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
McCoy Tyner
#13. I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.
McCoy Tyner
#14. I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.
McCoy Tyner
#15. Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.
McCoy Tyner
#17. You have to listen to what someone is doing and help them get to where they want to go, musically speaking. I play a supporting role if someone else is soloing, and a guitarist will do the same for me while I am soloing.
McCoy Tyner
#19. The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
Daniel Craig
#20. My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.
McCoy Tyner
#21. I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.
McCoy Tyner
#22. I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
McCoy Tyner
#24. Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.
McCoy Tyner
#26. Mitch studied me with a questioning, smug smile. Men did it so easily, that immediate parceling of value. And how they seemed to want you to collude on your own judgement.
Emma Cline
#27. It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.
Michelle Malkin
#28. In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.
Chris Matthews
#29. Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.
Rick Perry
#30. When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?
McCoy Tyner
#31. The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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