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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
American Musician
Born: Mar 9, 1930
Died: Jun 11, 2015
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Ornette Coleman
Music Time Jazz Only Same After Which Note Each Each Time Differently Played Night
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. Ornette Coleman
You Three Worry About Something Only Repetition Being Anything Placement Number Two Number Three Numbers
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman
Mistakes Out Something Could Knew Make Found
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. Ornette Coleman
Music You Own Every Think Say About Talking Sound Were Person Trying Whether Play Thing Play Music
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
Music You World Color Got Western Western World Same Regardless Title Notes Realize Played
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. Ornette Coleman
Time Myself Writing Saxophone Had California How Texas Left End Up Ended Getting Just Being Anyone After Anything Them Hard Hard Time Play Player Playing
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 - like radiation, cancer, and all. Ornette Coleman
Cancer Mind Environment Like How Affects Human Human Beings Them Planet Body Radiation Beings Elements Suffer Things Treats
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
Great You Rest Bypass Everything Spent Out Find Someone Write Got How Still Doing Years Trying Really Forty Forty Years Beings Even Play Things
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. Ornette Coleman
Time Good Me Beatles Beard Cause Long Good Time Hair Baton Horn Some Threw Guys Long Hair Beat Had New Like Although New Orleans Tragic Up Very Times Then Really Rouge Away Orleans
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. Ornette Coleman
Food You Book Remember Patient Sick Nurse Once Worrying Able About Mental Mental Illness Had Do You Know Know She Read Became Gotten Get Died Patients Being Illness
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. Ornette Coleman
Saying You Conversation Feeling Thinking Having More Concentrating Smelling Talking Got Doing Than Person Going Just Moving Body Means Now Thing Things Present
I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum. Ornette Coleman
Wind First Angeles More He Over Like Drum Drums Instrument Talking Los Sounds Los Angeles Been Years Used Play Actually Playing Plays
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, good information. Ornette Coleman
Good You Treat Else Someone Something Learn Getting Want Decide Information Right Treated
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense. Ornette Coleman
Work Looking Sense Valid See Something Guy More Feel Like Make Makes Doing His Bum Bums Person Front Going Just Wants Standing Who
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing. Ornette Coleman
Time Good Me Culture World Out Someone Seems Something Take Stuff Got Doing Western Western World Person Goes Creating Appearance Appreciate
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. Ornette Coleman
You World Worst Worst Thing Find Someone Having Label Labelled Labels Artistic Artistic Expression Just Different Us Expression Thing
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?' Ornette Coleman
Me You Improvise Write Instance Instrument Came Want Ask Why Play
That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them. Ornette Coleman
You Book People Will Say Out Find Write Know Doing Been Lots Anxious Want Them Now Why Enlighten
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 you say. Ornette Coleman
Me You Say Having Identified Existence Exists Human Just Human Existence Multiple Level Two-Dimensional

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