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Checkout quotes by Ornette Coleman on Music

• ‟ Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

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• ‟ I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

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

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• ‟ I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

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• ‟ That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

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• ‟ 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.

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