#th

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

#adult #dad #encourage #get #got

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#creative #democratic #elements #i #i think

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anything #because #company #executive #fired

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life. ↗

— James Collins

#balanced #call #ever #going #i

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept. ↗

— James Collins

#circle #coach #concept #counselor #deals

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#could #discovery #ever #every #existence

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. ↗

— Joan Collins

#class #composition #english #essays #first

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#exception #parties #power #seek #varieties