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Cecil Taylor

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

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

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"Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy"

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"I never listened to country music growing up."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

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