I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil fingered the Agnus Dei round her neck. "Why shouldn't they have lucky things?" she said. "Well, it's all very complicated," Dominic said. "And perhaps I'm not the one to explain it." "Why not?" Cecil asked, surprised. "Because I don't know if I...
Cecil Parkes: The page! For God's sake, the notes! Peter Helfgott: I'm sorry sir, I keep forgetting the notes. Cecil Parkes: Will it be asking too much to learn them first?
Cecil Parkes: Rachmaninov? Are you sure? David: Kind of. I'm not really sure about anything. Cecil Parkes: The Rach 3. It's monumental. David: It's a mountain. The hardest piece you could everest play.
She was sad and lost and alone in the dark," Cecil said. "She needed somebody to hold her." "And you think she's going to get tired of that?" "You did," Cecil said. "You shut me right out." "It was your decision, not mine," Dave said. "You are the de...
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants th...
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
Cecil reached for Dave, but Dave stepped back. "Dave, why are you doing this? You're not getting paid. Lovejoy called you off the case. You want the truth? You're compulsive. You can't leave it alone. You're like Adam Streeter, you know that? You liv...
Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.
All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
Cecil Parkes: You must play as if there's no tomorrow.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
