Ornette: Made in America Page #3

Pertinent or impertinent.

A question.

Immortality to the people.

Every man a god.

How do you get to be a god?

Well, to put it

apple pie country simple,

by doing your job and doing it well.

So you may become a god

of jugglers and acrobats;

A god of the long chance-

the horse that comes from

last to win in the stretch;

The punch-drunk fighter

who comes up from the floor

to win by a knockout

a god of future space travelers

who are ready to leave

the whole human context behind

and take a step into the unknown.

Well, every man a god

if you can qualify.

You can't be a god of anything

unless you can do it,

for Christ's sakes.

Happiness is a by-product

of function,

and those who seek happiness

for itself

seek victory without war,

and that is a flaw in all utopias,

and of course a paradise

is really a terminal utopia.

One thing

that's always mystified we

that I feel was magic

about your band

with Don Cherry and Blackwell

and Charlie, and that is-

and I think a lot

of other people, too-

you never counted off

your pieces.

I mean, just everybody would

instinctively or intuitively

come in with the instruments

at the same time,

and you didn't nod your head.

Yeah, I didn't nod my head.

We're gonna start when we start.

HOW did that work?

Insane, instinctive

insight.

See, that's one reason

I think that the West

doesn't really understand

about music,

because the West thinks of music

as entertainment, you know,

and in the same way this feeling

that persisted in jazz for years

that, well, black musicians

came along

and were kind of geniuses.

What they don't understand

is that the heart

is probably the highest kind

of intelligence.

This intuitive intelligence

that we have

in the Third World countries

is really Third World technology,

so, I mean,

the answer lies in music.

I asked Buckminster Fuller,

I said,

"Don't you think it's

a scientist's responsibility

to relate his discipline

not only to that science

but to everything?"

His answer was,

'Well, you have a dome.

Why don't you use if?"

OK, well...

actually I met

Buckminster Fuller in 1954

at Hollywood High

in Hollywood, California,

and I listened to his lecture,

and I was just inspired.

In fact, I once studied

architecture.

I thought I was going to be

an architect,

then I thought I was going to be

a brain specialist,

then I thought I was gonna...

I wanted to be so many things.

So I finally realized

I didn't have enough money

to support any of these ideas,

so I decided I would pursue

my career imitating music.

So I got a horn

and I started playing

whatever I heard on the radio,

and the one thing that really

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