Big Ideas and All That Jazz

Nice interview with jazz sax artist Ornette Coleman in today's NYTimes. Access to the article will require free registration, but it's worth taking those extra couple steps in order to read the entire article.

Great quotes from this legendary player on music and ideas...

The music he likes is simply defined: anything that can't be summed up in a common term. Any music that is not created as part of a style. "The state of surviving in music is more like 'what music are you playing,' " he said. "But music isn't a style, it's an idea. The idea of music, without it being a style -- I don't hear that much anymore."

Then he went up a level. "I would like to have the same concept of ideas as how people believe in God," he said. "To me, an idea doesn't have any master."

Ahhh... he strings together words as well as he plays notes on his alto-saxophone.
"An idea doesn't have any master."
Brilliant and inspiring.

From Business Wisdom Brewed

ChangeThis.com has posted its new update, and my favorite featured Manifesto is from BrandAutopsy.com's John Moore. He's provided a ChangeThis preview of his new book "Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture."

The book was just released (my copy has already been ordered!), but John's Manifesto provides an electronic Cliff Notes version that can easily be shared with your "co-conspirators of cool."

Keeping in our caffeinated theme, I have MY OWN ChangeThis-Manifesto-in-the-making... but I can't do it without YOU!

Please visit the page linked below and cast a vote for my Manifesto Proposal -- "The Idea Barista: Blending Coffee & Creativity to Brew New Ideas" and cast a vote to get it written. If the topic sounds interesting to enough people, I'll be invited to write a formal Manifesto for ChangeThis -- so click here to read the proposal and cast a vote to have it written.

...and then John Moore can write about its release on HIS blog. ;)