Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Cecil Taylor

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• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • You
  • Driving

• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Poetry
  • Special
  • Japanese

• If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Good
  • Music
  • Real

• In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

  

  Carla Hall
  • You
  • Wishes
  • Changing

• I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Day
  • Myself

• I like black because it is a vacant space.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Black
  • Space
  • Like

• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Children

• The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Mind

• You always want to look your best at events like the Globes, Emmys, or Oscars. It's a part of the business that I am not particularly comfortable with. I would prefer to turn up in a pair of jeans and an old shirt, but it's all about image - the studio wants you to look your best.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Business

• I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Travel

• The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Powerful
  • Opinion

• 'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.

  

  Lauren Velez
  • Money
  • Done
  • Soul

• When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Men
  • Women

• There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, and I always hoped I was related, but I wasn't. He was a steel magnate. He worked for J.P. Morgan; then he started Bethlehem Steel. But he had no children, unfortunately, and it turned out I wasn't a relative.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Children
  • Guy

• I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

  

  James Lapine
  • Writing

• If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Technology

• Ideas are somewhat like babies-they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, 'This is a damn-fool idea.' Instead they ask, 'What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?'

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Promise

• I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Death
  • Enough
  • Knows

• In that little practice room, no, I had no idea what would come of this little song. But it changed everything for us – it cemented the deal with Geffen – I could sense that everyone was much nicer to us after they heard that song!

  

  Jack Hues Wang Chung
  • Song
  • Deal
  • Heard

• Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Single

• Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Song
  • Knows
  • Fool