I’m into scales right now.
JOHN COLTRANEI’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.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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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 think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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 think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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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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