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Ornette Coleman Quotes

1930–2015 United States

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 19, 1930 - June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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

Let's play the music and not the background!

I mostly like things that have causes more than effects, and this seemed to be a tune that is mostly effects. I don't get the cause clearly.

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."

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ornette Coleman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.