"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, Chance, Partnership

34

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Idea quotes

"But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly."

David Selby, American Actor

Idea,

"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Idea, Being, Errors, Mind

"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Idea, Rest

"Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea."

Scott Reed, American Political Consultant

Idea, Act, Being

"I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America."

Monica Bellucci, Italian Actress

Idea, America, Reality

"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish Musician

Idea,

"Everything begins with an idea."

Earl Nightingale, American Entertainer

Idea,

"When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always."

Rita Rudner, American Comedian

Idea, First, Name, Right

"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."

Ronald Biggs, British Celebrity

Idea, Old, Poor

"First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician."

John Podesta, American Lawyer

Idea, First, Years

Explore more quotes by Archie Shepp

"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

"Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response."

Music

"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

"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

"Today, music is visual."

Music

"You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory."

People

"So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody."

Quality

"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

"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened."

Music

"A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music."

Music