Ornette Coleman Quotes

We like our individuality, we like the mysteriousness of us, the essentialism of us, and it can be alarming to see the biological gears turning underneath.

I look on the outside how I feel on the inside.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

When he puts on that dress, he feels like a princess.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

I think a lot of us are multiple things that don't always fit together neatly in a bio box.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

People have multiple identities.

I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being Marilyn Manson as having lipstick on, but I don't really have some sort of other lifestyle.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

The answer to the nature of our existence is somewhere in the middle, and that, of course, is what we're looking for: how to see ourselves in a new picture of ourselves and understand the questions that humans have asked forever, "Who are we, how did we get here, where are we going, and what's the nature of this reality that we're in?"

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.