"Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?"

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Source : Interview by Jason Gross, www.furious.com. January 2001.

Cecil Taylor

#Piano Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“IÂ think love and friends are two things that you donâ€™t chase. True love and true friends come,”
“I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.”
“This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.”
“I will never ever sell Neverland”
“Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.”
“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”
“I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.”

Source : "Buffalo boy" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
“C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.”

Source : Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 1, 2007.

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