"You don't have to worry about being a……" — Ornette Coleman
"You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition."
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40 Quotes by Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman has 40 quotes on this site.
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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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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels…
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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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More Number Quotes
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running…
— Neil Armstrong
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim…
— Isaac Asimov
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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number…
— Margaret Atwood
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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