94 Quotes by Ornette Coleman

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I wasn’t so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That’s why I’m broke.

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.

You don’t have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don’t have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.