"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."

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Source : "Ornette Coleman: What I've Learned". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2009.

Ornette Coleman

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“I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.”
“A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.”
“I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.”
“Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.”
“There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.”
“I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.”
“I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.”

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