Quotes by Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

After I found out that I was playing music and that I’d have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, “Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer.” But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.

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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.

Hard Times

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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–like radiation, cancer, and all.

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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.

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Years

For me, being an innovator doesn’t mean being more intelligent, more rich, it’s not a word, it’s an action.

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Intelligent

Mean

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

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Individual

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, ‘Well if you go out and save your money.’ So I went and got – I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I’d bring whatever I made.

Mother

Shining

Shoes

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.

Discovery

Music

Who I Am

I don’t know what they’re thinking about. Just because someone says, ‘I like what you do’ or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I’ve had that experience with record companies.

Might

Records

Thinking

I don’t really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I’d like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

Kind

Musician

Thinking

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Quotes by Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

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.

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.

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.

For me, being an innovator doesn’t mean being more intelligent, more rich, it’s not a word, it’s an action.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, ‘Well if you go out and save your money.’ So I went and got – I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I’d bring whatever I made.

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.

I don’t know what they’re thinking about. Just because someone says, ‘I like what you do’ or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I’ve had that experience with record companies.

I don’t really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I’d like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

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