Musical Process Quotes by Cecil Taylor

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• To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
• I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
• I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if…
• If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes…
• Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
• To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
• Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?
• The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
• In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't…
• Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
• Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
• I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

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