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Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.
— Ornette Coleman
I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.
— Ornette Coleman
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
— Ornette Coleman
Reading the word of God is so refreshing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
— Ornette Coleman
Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.
— Ornette Coleman
I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.
— Ornette Coleman
![Ornette Quotes By Thelonious Monk: Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/ornette-quotes-by-thelonious-monk-1652706.jpg "Ornette Quotes By Thelonious Monk: Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.")
Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.
— Thelonious Monk
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
— Ornette Coleman
Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.
— Ornette Coleman
Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.
— Ornette Coleman
Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.
— Ornette Coleman
Sound has no parents.
— Ornette Coleman
The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
— Ornette Coleman
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
— Pat Metheny
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
— 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
The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are.
— Ornette Coleman
I just think political correctness is crap.
— Gary Oldman
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
When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.
— Ornette Coleman
Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.
— Ornette Coleman
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice ... No wonder people take advantage of me.
— Alfonso Cuaron
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
— Win Butler
