Ornette Coleman Quotes

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.