"The idea is more important than the style…" — Ornette Coleman

"The idea is more important than the style you're playing in."

— 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…
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…

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More Idea Quotes

This quote is filed under Idea Quotes, one of 9,651 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and… — Paul Auster
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no… — Lance Armstrong
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium… — Antonin Artaud
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity… — Chinua Achebe
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I… — Chinua Achebe
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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