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 life.
Ornette ColemanRead
That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
Interpretation
Every individual has a unique essence or 'sound' that defines them, regardless of their musical abilities.
In this quote, Ornette Coleman emphasizes the idea that every person possesses a unique identity or essence, which he likens to a personal 'sound'. This 'sound' represents an individual's distinct characteristics, experiences, and emotional resonances that shape who they are, irrespective of their engagement with music or art.
In practice
This quote can inspire artists to embrace their unique styles during a creative meeting.
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 life.
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.
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.
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
I am interested in the physicality of light itself.
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
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