For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Ornette ColemanWe in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
Ornette ColemanNo 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.
Ornette ColemanI would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.
Ornette Coleman