Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Ornette Coleman's Popular Quotes

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

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Sound has no parents.

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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's sayin…

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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body-…

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

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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 identified with what you do and what yo…

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Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

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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 on. We've separated music from li…

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Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

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