"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."

-- Steve Lacy

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“Virtue is reason which has become energy.”
“In Cree, an oskÃ¢pÃªwis is a servant or a helper, someone who hauls in rocks for sweats, or pipes or medicines. I equate that to leadership. You're a servant or helper of people.”
“Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success,”
“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”
“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.”
“Think what you want, this is what we are.”
“Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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