Jazz genius Ornette Coleman

at the APAP awards luncheon yesterday:

What is a mistake? Not something you need to know, but something you don't want to forget how not to do.

If you didn't have to die, what would you do?

I didn't want to be intelligent. I wanted to be creative.

There is something that has to do with sound that is as creative as being born.

Someone said to me at one of the after-parties at 1am last night:
When you listen to Ornette speak, you understand what circular breathing is.