I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.
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. - Ornette Coleman
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.
- Ornette Coleman
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… - Ornette Coleman
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…
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… - Ornette Coleman
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…
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-… - Ornette Coleman
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-…
The idea is more important than the style you're playing in. - Ornette Coleman
The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
Sound has no parents. - Ornette Coleman
Sound has no parents.
Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it. - Ornette Coleman
Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.
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… - Ornette Coleman
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…
If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right,… - Ornette Coleman
If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right,…
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