"I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure."

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

Ornette Coleman

#Play Quotes #Trying Quotes #Cures Quotes

“Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.”
“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?”
“Every night is a time for drink.”
“To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.”
“And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.”
“Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.”
“Donâ€™t let the noise of othersâ€™ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.”

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