37 Quotes by Cecil Taylor

I only had three teachers, really, that were interesting, and all three of them were women.

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.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

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

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

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