Ornette Coleman Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

  Ornette Coleman

  Perseverance, Mistake, Jazz

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Memorable, Night

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

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Ideas, Style

• 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

  Thinking, Talking, Play

• 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 Coleman

  Music, Class, Suffering

• 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.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Discovery, Who I Am

• The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Jazz, Argument

• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  Ornette Coleman

  Jazz, Broke, Heard

  Esquire, January 2010.

• I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Play, Jazz

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