Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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A will finds a way.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.
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I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
