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Ornette Coleman Quotes
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but Ive had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic! - Ornette Coleman Quotes
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And thats how I ended up just being a saxophone player. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Even when you write it, someones got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, youre still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. Im really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, Well if you go out and save your money. So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and Id bring whatever I made. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I decided, if Im going to be poor and black and all, the least thing Im going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I dont know what theyre thinking about. Just because someone says, I like what you do or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. Ive had that experience with record companies. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I dont really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but Id like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how youre going to do it but when you do it. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, Dad, these people are writing about me like Im an adult. Dont they know Im a kid? I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I think that there are lots of people that play music, but, basically, they have other things that are motivating them to play music. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. Theyre into the creative part of life. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
I think those things that are in food are all chemically disastrous when they are placed in the wrong contents where human beings are exposed to it. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Im having this conversation with you now. Im talking, but Im thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet Im concentrating on what youre saying. So that means theres more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the persons got you doing. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Ive been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if hes playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Ive had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. Ive had lots of guys call me up. Ive gotten two or three commissions to write things. Ive written lots of movie scores. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Ive never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and Id be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldnt do anything for me. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, its information. Its getting the right, good information. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums dont do? This dont make sense. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person thats out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what theyre doing. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Its just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. Ive never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. Ive always had a personal relationship with someone in the company. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Music is the say way. If you desire to play it or write it, then you have to get more information. But the end result is that you play music. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesnt know the words hes saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what hes thinking logical to what youre saying. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, I think of myself as a composer. - Ornette Coleman Quotes
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