Ornette Coleman Quotes

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

I mostly like things that have causes more than effects, and this seemed to be a tune that is mostly effects. I don't get the cause clearly.

The only thing my mother would say about my music—I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

Let's play the music and not the background!

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