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

— Ornette Coleman

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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."

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