Ornette Coleman Quotes

I believe in being an innovator.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

We should have more invention.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

Innovation happens everywhere.

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

I'm going to keep innovating.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.