"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing."

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Luc Ferrari

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes

“Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and theyâ€™ll have the chance to become them.”
“There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.”
“I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.”
“Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day -- at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.”
“We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.”
“I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it. And now I will have to be that person forever.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books
“As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.”

Source : Raymond M. Smullyan (2013). “The Tao Is Silent”, p.25, Harper Collins

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