God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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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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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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 want to be the force which is truly for good.
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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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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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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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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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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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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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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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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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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