Skip to main content
Арабские красавицы на фестивале в Дубаи. ТОП-10Арабские красавицы на фестивале в Дубаи. ТОП-10 14 самых удивительных вертикальных садов мира14 самых удивительных вертикальных садов мира Крупнейшие радиационные аварии и катастрофы современностиКрупнейшие радиационные аварии и катастрофы современности
Ornette Coleman

I had a really good time in N...

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 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

I've been playing with Blackw...

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

The only thing my mother woul...

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

After I found out that I was ...

After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

For me, being an innovator do...

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

We in the Western world suffe...

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

Music has many uses and I thi...

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

Originally, I wanted to be a ...

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

It seems the activity of expr...

It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

All the things that human bei...

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 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

Making music is like a form o...

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

Jerry Garcia was one of the o...

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

I'm interested in music, not ...

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

I'm having this conversation ...

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

I remember once, we got an in...

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.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

Originally, I wanted to be a ...

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

I remember once I read a book...

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

To me, human existence exists...

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 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

It just makes that person fee...

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 77 quotes
Ornette Coleman

I have often read critical pi...

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.

Ornette Coleman 77 quotes

Last interesting articles

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками Holiday

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют Holiday

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие Holiday

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы Holiday

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих Holiday

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие Holiday

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....