Ornette Coleman Quotes

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

Ornette Coleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015

Topics

MotherShoesMoneyMeShineYou

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.

John Cho

CharacterMeCareerPlayWayReal

During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.

Anna Getty

SunYearsMeatEverythingGotAte

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

Stephen Kinzer

WorkArtFreeLostWhereBeen

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Roger Waters

DeathPainMeWorldNightBlind

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

Mary Pilon

YouKnowGrabStoriesOften

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

Lucinda Williams

SongKnowWantSoundAlwaysGet

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Joshua Bell

GoodVisionArchitectureKnowLead

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

Divyanka Tripathi

WindLuckyUpGetHoursTimes

I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

Chris Lane

MusicFeelUniqueCountryMy Own

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

Chloe Bennet

WomanPeopleMeThinkAmericanHard

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

Boy George

LiveFreedomOpinionWorldYouWant

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

Brigitte Nielsen

AmericaYouEuropeGuyWhereDate

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