Talk:Cecil Taylor

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The following quote has been moved here because the source has no wp or wq page. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:29, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

• "That man is capable of playing ten different notes with ten different fingers, ten different dynamics, ten different attacks and ten different tempi. There is no musician I've ever met, including Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, who come anywhere near having the abilities that Cecil Taylor has." - Buell Neidlinger

Unsourced quotations about Cecil Taylor

• Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!
  • Miles Davis

• The most formidable pianism these ears have heard: This is the great divide of American piano playing.
  • Glenn Gould

• That man is capable of playing ten different notes with ten different fingers, ten different dynamics, ten different attacks and ten different tempi. There is no musician I've ever met, including Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, who come anywhere near having the abilities that Cecil Taylor has.
  • Buell Neidlinger