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Cecil Taylor Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 15, 1930

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People Think Want Understand Nothin

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

World Wood Prices Highest Among

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Time Food You Eat Eyesight Up

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

Loneliness Being Like Internal

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

Good Long Matter Where Much

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

Me Think Thought Early Now Anything

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

Work Music Sea School Loved Back

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Love Partner Conversation Dumb How

As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man.

Man Glasses Macho Much Lack

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

Dorothea Benton Frank

Love Beach Ocean I Am Song Husband

While it's cool to think ghosts exist, I don't want to see one.

Cool Think Want Ghosts See Exist

Carlos Sosa, the saxophone player for Zac Brown Band, and I worked up two songs for 'When You're Feeling Sick.' They were a blast to work on. The songs are real upbeat and silly.

Work Sick Silly You Feeling Band

I had moved around my whole life. That was the one thing that was always so hard.

Life Hard Always Whole One Thing

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