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.
JOHN COLTRANEOne positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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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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The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I’m trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven’t sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I’m trying to work through and get the one essential.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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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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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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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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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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