Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.
The loudest noise in the world is silence.
When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.
I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.