top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Business quotes

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

"A business is an army; you are the general, and your subordinates are your troops. Victory is achieving your goals. Great victory is surpassing your goals."

"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."

"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."

"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
Explore more quotes by Ornette Coleman

"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."

"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."

"Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
bottom of page