Ornette Coleman Quotes

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Ornette Coleman

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• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Growing

• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Pencil

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

  

  Alexander O'Neal
  • Everyday

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • World
  • School
  • Pretty

• Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • People
  • World
  • Forever

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find