Ornette Coleman Quotes

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.

When I was very young, my brother and I, we used to go into charity shops to buy suits. The thing about clothes is that people judge you by what you wear, unfortunately. So when we wore suits, people gave us respect - we were very young, and it made them think we were older.

In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It's not what you wear.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

If you start having to tell people you're cool, you're not.

I don't need to do or say things to place me in a position where I look a bit cooler.

People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.

You always look to impress.

It's better to look important than sexy.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

I don't want to look like a bum.

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

The image is not important.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?