"Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is……" — Ornette Coleman

"Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school."

— 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…
I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
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…
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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must… — Aristophanes
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe… — Michele Bachmann
A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's… — Michele Bachmann
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every… — Michele Bachmann
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them… — Erykah Badu
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is… — James A. Baldwin
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of… — Stanley Baldwin
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you… — Christian Bale
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended… — Douglas Adams
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are… — Gerry Adams

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