Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Cecil Taylor

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Go

• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Failure
  • Impossible

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Band
  • Greatest
  • Planet

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • She
  • Dad
  • Emotional

• Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Real
  • Savings

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Music
  • Me
  • Sound

• Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

  

  Larry David
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Confident

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • World
  • Different
  • Connection

• What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Important
  • Money
  • Why

• I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Attention
  • First
  • Floating

• I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

  

  Larry David
  • Salad

• The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

  

  Paul Farmer
  • Health
  • Right
  • Precious

• Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Looks

• I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Together
  • Gay

• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Purity

• I could have continued to get into trouble, but I wanted to do something positive with myself - and music is the best way.

  

  Sonny Sandoval P.O.D.
  • Music
  • Way
  • Positive

• You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Music
  • Surrender
  • Preconceptions