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