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Ornette Coleman

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

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Donna Grant

"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

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Donna Grant

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

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Donna Grant

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

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Donna Grant

"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."

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Donna Grant

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

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Donna Grant

"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."

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Donna Grant

"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

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Donna Grant

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

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Donna Grant

"I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider."

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Ornette Coleman
"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."

Music

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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
"That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about."

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Ornette Coleman
"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."

Today

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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
"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
"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."

People

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Ornette Coleman
"I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life."

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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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Ornette Coleman
"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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