I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard.… - Ornette Coleman

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

Ornette Coleman

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Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 19, 1930 - June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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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.

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."

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

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