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 Read Quote
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don’t do? This don’t make sense. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that’s out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they’re doing. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
It’s just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, ‘I think of myself as a composer.’ Ornette Coleman Read Quote
So, for instance, if you came to me, I’d ask, ‘Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?’ Ornette Coleman Read Quote
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. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
That’s why I haven’t been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, ‘I want to find out what you’re doing.’ So I know that this book will enlighten them. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
I don’t know what they’re thinking about. Just because someone says, ‘I like what you do’ or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I’ve had that experience with record companies. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
