“I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinki...” — Ornette Coleman Quote

“I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.”

“I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.”

“You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.”

“I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.”

“For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.”