Coleman: [offering Billy Ray a sip from his flask; Coleman dressed as a priest, Billy Ray in African garb] Would you like a sip of whiskey? Billy Ray Valentine: I do not drink, it is against my religion! Coleman: Religion is a good thing I say, taken...
Louis: My God! The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market! Ophelia: Unless somebody stops them... Coleman: ...or *beats* them to it. [all turn and look at him] Coleman: Egg-nog?
He's sitting in the catbird seat.
Billy Ray Valentine: [on his first day of work] What if I can't do this job, Coleman? What if I'm not what they expected? Coleman: Just be yourself, sir. Whatever happens, they can't take that away from you.
To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance.
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.
One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
Billy Ray Valentine: [after breaking a vase] Hey, sorry about that. Randolph Duke: It's perfectly all right William. It was your vase. Billy Ray Valentine: That was a cheap vase, right? That was a fake? Right? Randolph Duke: I believe we paid $35,000...
When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.
I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
Billy Ray Valentine: [after Ophelia and Coleman stop Louis from choking Billy Ray] Billy Ray Valentine: [gasping] Billy Ray Valentine: It was an experiment... to see how our lives would turn out... the Dukes arranged it... they made a bet. Coleman: I...
