Quote by: Ornette Coleman

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.


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Author Bio


  • NameOrnette Coleman
  • DescriptionAmerican jazz musician
  • AliasesRandolph Denard Ornette Coleman
  • BornMarch 9, 1930
  • DiedJune 11, 2015
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComposer; Trumpeter; Saxophonist; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; Praemium Imperiale