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Famous Cecil Taylor Quotes
“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.”
“You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.”
“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.”
“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.”