Cecil Taylor Quotes

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. - Cecil Taylor

Where are you Bud? ... Lightning... now a lone rain falling thru doors empty of room-Jazz Naked Fire Gesture, Dancing protoplasm Absorbs. - Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. - Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue. - Cecil Taylor

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. - Cecil Taylor

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

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. - Cecil Taylor

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