Ornette Coleman
Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.Collection: America
Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.Collection: Thinking
When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.Collection: Beautiful
I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.Collection: Sex
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.Collection: Writing