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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

John Coltrane

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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Divine Language Musical Myself People Point Soul Talk
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Believe Goodness Growth Man Myself
Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Help Horn Play Time Yourself
I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Force Goodness Myself True
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
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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Himself Listening Musician Picture Universe
The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I’m after something. If I make money, fine. But I’d rather be striving. It’s the striving, man, it’s that I want.
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Change Man Real Risk Strive
God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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Breathe Feeling Gentle God Ourselves
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
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Feeling Known Man Myself Name Thinking Truth
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
JOHN COLTRANE

Music Myself Time Walk
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
JOHN COLTRANE

Important Listening Person Yourself

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

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