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I decided, if I'm going to be ...

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 77 quotes

All the things that human bein...

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.

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It's just someone has labelled...

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.

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Making music is like a form of...

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.

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Jerry Garcia was one of the or...

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

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Sound has no parents....

Sound has no parents.

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It seems the activity of expre...

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.

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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.

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Whatever you do, it's over whe...

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

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Originally, I wanted to be a c...

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

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No one has to learn to spell t...

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.

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That's why I haven't been so a...

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.

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For me, being an innovator doe...

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

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I have often read critical pie...

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.

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I don't really live like a mus...

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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After I found out that I was p...

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.

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You've got to realize. In the ...

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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After I left Texas and went to...

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

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Even when you write it, someon...

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

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I asked my mother could I have...

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

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

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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...

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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....