Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, ‘Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!’ Ornette Coleman Read Quote
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. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn’t know the words he’s saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he’s thinking logical to what you’re saying. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
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. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you’re going to do it but when you do it. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. ‘Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body – like radiation, cancer, and all. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
Most of my relationships have been like that – with record companies. I’ve never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I’ve always had a personal relationship with someone in the company. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
I decided, if I’m going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I’m going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman Read Quote
