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"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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Personal Development
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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Personal Development
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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Personal Development
"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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Personal Development
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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Personal Development
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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Personal Development
"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."
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Personal Development
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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Personal Development
"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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Personal Development
"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
Audience
"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened."
Music
"To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it."
Music
"Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer."
Music
"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."
American
"A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music."
Music
"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."
Idea
"In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous."
Poetry
"It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz."
Time
"In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort."
Music
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