Ornette Coleman

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.