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Music Quotes by Ornette Coleman
- That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play…
- We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from…
- I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to…
- I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of…
- You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same…
- The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
- The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
- Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
- Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my…
- I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm…
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