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Ornette Coleman on Music

1930–2015 United States

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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!

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."

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