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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

Ornette Coleman

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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Ornette Coleman

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.

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Ornette Coleman

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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Ornette Coleman

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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Ornette Coleman

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?’

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Ornette Coleman

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

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Ornette Coleman

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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Ornette Coleman

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.

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Ornette Coleman

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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Ornette Coleman

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.

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Ornette Coleman

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.

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