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 COLTRANEStarting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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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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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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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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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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There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself… I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
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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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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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