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Ornette Coleman

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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

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Ornette Coleman
"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."

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"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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