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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

John Coltrane

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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Law Music Nature Source
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
Whatever I’d say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I’ve ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.
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Better Friendship Greatness Known Life Musician Myself
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Existence Faith Knowledge Music Myself Spiritual
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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Beginning Expression Goodness Knowledge Music People Possible Soul Spiritual Talk
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
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Aspect Awake Learning Music Myself Thinking
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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Feeling Future Greatness Heritage Myself Optimist Reason Work
I’ve always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn’t have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
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Feeling Known Man Myself Name Thinking Truth
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be – at least, this is what I want to do.
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Believe Goodness Growth Man Myself
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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Beginning Goodness People Possible See
There is never any end, There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we’ve discovered in its pure state.
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Discover End Feeling Imagination Purify Sound State
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Bad Force Goodness Misery Reality Suffering True
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

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