"I wasn't so interested in being paid. I……" — Ornette Coleman

"I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke."

— Ornette Coleman

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40 Quotes by Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is…
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their…
That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they…
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers…
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of,…
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on…
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some…
Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels…
To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be…
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

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