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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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"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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Donna Grant

"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"

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Donna Grant

"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."

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Donna Grant

"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."

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Donna Grant

"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"

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Donna Grant

"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."

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Donna Grant

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."

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Donna Grant

"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."

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Donna Grant

"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."

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Donna Grant

"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."

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Donna Grant

"Find a voice in a whisper."

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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
"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
"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
"I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing."

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Ornette Coleman
"Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business."

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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
"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
"I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores."

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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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