#om

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. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bypass #doing #even #everything #find

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bums #doing #feel #front #going

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#else #getting #good #information #learn

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#appreciate #creating #culture #doing #goes

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#composer #i #i always #i think #myself

I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#approached #been #certainly #fun #fun time

You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#love

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#charities #compliment #forgotten #fractions #happiness

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#become #dreams #i #life #live

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#man #other #rarely #than #woman