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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

John Coltrane

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
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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End Music Myself Thinking Time Wrong
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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Important Listening Person Yourself
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Instrument Music Myself Pattern People Thinking
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Fun Investment Serious
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
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
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
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Expression Goal Knowledge Life Live Music Myself Religious True
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

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