Ornette Coleman Music Quotations

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

Music is the say way. If you desire to play it or write it, then you have to get more information. But the end result is that you play music.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.