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 COLTRANEStarting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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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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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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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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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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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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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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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I’m into scales right now.
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