"I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes."

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Source : "Innovation, improvisation". Interview with Miya Masaoka, www.miyamasaoka.com. October 25, 2000.

Cecil Taylor

#Piano Quotes #Space Quotes #Dancer Quotes

“In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.”
“I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.”
“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”
“When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.”
“It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from Aristotle, that it is not limited to a very few perfect individuals.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing wasÂ expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: â€œThe principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.â€”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc
“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote”
“Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.”

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