I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
JOHN COLTRANEI think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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 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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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing, the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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I’m into scales right now.
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