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Ornette Coleman Quotes

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

Ornette Coleman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music People Me Writing Musicians

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

Joe Scarborough

Past School High School Want High

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

Michael Owen

Quality Yourself Start Think You

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

Lukas Foss

Creative Writing You Down Know Want

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

Jose Mourinho

Time Team Strong Say Will Same

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

Jon Meacham

Great Reality Complicated More Fail

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

David Spade

Relationships Sell Hear Stories Lot

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

Chuck Zito

Attitude Medical Nothing Hand Right

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Augustine Birrell

History Great

When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

William Jackson

Friend Duck Copy Old Director Years

If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades.

Susan Wojcicki

Women Losing Society Political Risk

You will never have enough space in a tabloid paper to compete with the 'New York Times' on foreign coverage.

Pete Hamill

New York Space Enough You New Never

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

Rick Bayless

Family Memory Restaurant Grandmother