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

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Source : Esquire, January 2010.

Ornette Coleman

#Broke Quotes #Wanted Quotes #Heard Quotes

“He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.”
“Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.”
“Itâ€™s mostly just you have to convince yourself that thereâ€™s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!”
“I donâ€™t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.”
“Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.”

Source : "When Things Start to Think". Book by Neil Gershenfeld, www.cnn.com. 1998.
“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”
“There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.”
“My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.”

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