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. Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed ...

Shan O' Connor

#4. Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#5. 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

#6. I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.

McCoy Tyner

#7. I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.

McCoy Tyner

#8. Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.

Richard White

#9. I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.

McCoy Tyner

#10. Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

McCoy Tyner

#11. Serve others: The heart of the leader is manifested through service to others.

Artika R. Tyner

#12. Every performance is different, but I try to approach them in the same way and give it my all.

McCoy Tyner

#13. I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

McCoy Tyner

#14. The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

McCoy Tyner

#15. I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.

Dwight Freeney

#16. 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

#17. From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

Ben Klassen

#18. I try to play what comes naturally at the moment and let it happen.

McCoy Tyner

#19. 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

#20. What is your hands to make a difference in the world?

Artika R. Tyner

#21. You two have a lot of balls coming here."
Kynan gestured to Arik. "He does. I'm charmed. Nothing can hurt me. Or my balls.

Larissa Ione

#22. Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.

Mohamed Elmasry

#23. 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

#24. I'm tired," she said. "I want to go home." Home. Did she even have a home?

Tiffany Reisz

#25. Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Donnie Yen

#26. If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

Eddie Vedder

#27. Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Brenda Ueland

#28. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Priya Ardis

#29. 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

#30. Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.

Melody Malone

#31. 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

#32. Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the 'least of these' and give voice to the voiceless.

Artika R. Tyner

#33. Always seek to learn: The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

Artika R. Tyner

#34. Harvester might have a halo, but dear, sweet Lord, she was no angel in the sack.
Awesome.

Larissa Ione

#35. 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

#36. Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Rowan Atkinson

#37. I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

McCoy Tyner