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One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Going How Know Me Mother One Of The Things Practice Said Things Want You

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Fats - very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Every Fats Funny He Like Man Note Pearl Played Very

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When you play, when you perform, it might be for the last time, so you got to do it.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Got Last Last Time Might Perform Play Time You

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They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Always Back Dishwasher Give Go Going Might Money Play Say They Say Thought Want Well Will You

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I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Always Anything Anything Else Die Else Mean More More Than Anything Musicians Poet Professional Than Tried

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I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as human beings - in spite of all the efforts of those around them to degrade them - I'm saying that this music is the manifestation of the dignity in the life that has always been present.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Always Around Been Beings Degrade Dignity Efforts Find Human Human Beings Life Live Manifestation Music People Present Project Saying Situations Spite Them Those Ways Who

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You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Know Material Never Play Same Twice Way You

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Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Also Another Find Instrument Note Pleases Then You

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Lena Horne - when she walked onstage, she really was Erzulie.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Onstage Really She Walked

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Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: About Before Billy Feel Fought He Hide How Joe Joe Louis Louis New New York Run Said York You I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 15th, 1930

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