Ornette Coleman Quotes

Composing music is hard work.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

I am happy to be a composer.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

I usually think in terms of music.

I love writing music.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

Music is all about creativity.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

I consider myself a composer.

I'm an interpreter of music.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.