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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

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

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

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND — Ian Somerhalder

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

There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that. — Prem Rawat

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 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

Walk,' was my answer, 'I definitely must, to invigorate myself and to maintain contact with the living world ... Without walking, I would be dead. — Robert Walser

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

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. — Mark Twain

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. — Lou Reed

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. — Ornette Coleman

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it. — Ornette Coleman

Sometimes, your pet picks you. — Julie Wenzel

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action. — Ornette Coleman