Ornette Coleman Said It

"I was out at [anthropologist] Margaret Mead's school and was teaching some little kids how to play instantly. I asked the question, 'How many kids would like to play music and have fun?' And all the little kids raised up their hands. And I asked, 'Well, how do you do that?' And one little girl said, 'You just apply your feelings to sound.' And I said, 'Come and show me.' When she went to the piano to do it, she tried to show me, but she had forgotten about what she said. So I tried to show her why all of a sudden all her attention span had to go to another level, and after that she went ahead and did it. But she was right: If you apply your feelings to sound, regardless of what instrument you have, you'll probably make good music."

—Ornette Coleman in Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel

Comments

[ortega]

In the Bill Evans' youtube that you commented a few days ago, he showed more common sense. He more or less said: a baby crying is also expresing its feelings but that is not enough to make it art (or whatever you want to call it).
Maybe Coleman is the equivalent in the world of music to the present day painters that don't know how to paint. Our is the lost.