Ornette Coleman Quotes
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Ornette Coleman
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
Samantha Isler
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
Mal Peet
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
Maggie Hassan
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams
Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Omar Bongo
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
Salman Khurshid
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
Sam Ervin
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.
Lewis Thomas
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
Pierre Loti
Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
Hamdi Ulukaya
When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.
Bruce McGill
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Ornette Coleman
