Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
JOHN COLTRANEInvest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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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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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
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I’m into scales right now.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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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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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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