Ornette Coleman | Lonely woman
Album: The Shape of Jazz to Come [1959]
“Before becoming known as a musician, when I worked in a big department store, one day, during my lunch break, I came across a gallery where someone had painted a very rich white woman who had absolutely everything that you could desire in life, and she had the most solitary expression in the world. I had never been confronted with such solitude, and when I got back home, I wrote a piece that I called ‘Lonely Woman.’” - Ornette Coleman
download the pdf of the interview - ‘The Other’s Language: Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman, 23 June 1997’
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“ When I began to resist male domination, to rebel against patriarchal thinking (and to oppose the strongest patriarchal voice in my life - my mother’s voice), I was still a teenager, suicidal, depressed, uncertain about how I would find meaning in my life and a place for myself. I needed feminism to give me a foundation of equality and justice to stand on. ”
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Jacques Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman
JD: How do you understand or interpret your own verbal statements? Are they something important to you?
OC: It interests me more to have a human relationship with you than a musical relationship. I want to see if I can express myself in words, in sounds that have to do with a human relationship. At the same time, I would like to be able to speak of the relationship between two talents, between two doings. For me, the human relationship is much more beautiful, because it allows you to gain the freedom that you desire, for yourself and for the other.
“ For me, being an innovator doesn’t mean being more intelligent, more rich, it’s not a word, it’s an action. Since it hasn’t been done, there’s no use talking about it ”
Ornette Coleman
The homie @TerenceNance’s poster for his experimental feature AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY headed to sundance. He collab’ed with artist @StephanieMatthews to create this masterpiece. #jealousmuch
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Erykah Badu | On Creativity [02:57 - 03:57]
“Creativity is freedom, pretty much. Creativity is also the absence of fear. Not being afraid to approach something and make a mistake, or be wrong, or right, or any of that: it’s just the absence of fear. And I guess the braver you are the deeper you go into your craft, whatever that may be.”
I want to live in the mood/spirit/atmosphere of this interview always.
