I've been playing with Blac... by Ornette Coleman, an American Musician

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“I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.”

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Ornette Coleman

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Name: Ornette Coleman

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Mar 19, 1930

Profession: Musician

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

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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

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