"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy……" — Steve Lacy
"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
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50 Quotes by Steve Lacy
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Make the drummer sound good.
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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
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To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit…
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A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer,…
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Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
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A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well…
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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a…
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If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give…
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Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
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If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out…
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If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will…
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More Cecil Quotes
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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a…
— Archie Shepp
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For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's…
— Unknown Author
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The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to…
— Manolo Blahnik
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I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil…
— Luc Ferrari
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Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
— Joel Hodgson
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And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had…
— Archie Shepp
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I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
— Stephen Dorff
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Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!'…
— Michelle Malkin
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I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.
— Richard Farnsworth
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When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after…
— Lou Reed
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
— Steven Spielberg
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Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I…
— Robin McKinley
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