Ornette Coleman Quotes
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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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.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'
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When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
