Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
JOHN COLTRANE
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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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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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I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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