Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
JOHN COLTRANESometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that’s too bad.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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I’m into scales right now.
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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Considering the great heritage in music that we have – the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come – I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.
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The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I’m trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven’t sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I’m trying to work through and get the one essential.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being…When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups…I want to speak to their souls.
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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing, the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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