Ornette Coleman Quotes

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.

Older people generally appreciate live music.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

It's an incredible experience to interact with fans in first person, get immediate responses to your music and see the madness that your music creates.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.

Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

Music is made to be heard, whether you hear it in concert, you hear it on the radio, or you hear it in your car. It's not for two people to sit in a closet and go, 'That's my band, the only band I've ever heard, and I'm the only person that's going to hear it.'

If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.