Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
JOHN COLTRANEGod breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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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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Sometimes 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.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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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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