"To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra."

-- Cecil Taylor

#Piano Quotes #Orchestra Quotes

“The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.”
“Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.”
“I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.”
“Suffrage is the pivotal right.”
“It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.”
“Boys do what they can; men do what they want”
“I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.”
“Professional competitions are overrated.”

Source : Online Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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