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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

John Coltrane

Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Fun Investment Serious
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
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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Believe Goodness Growth Man Myself
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Better Friendship Greatness Known Life Musician Myself
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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Discover End Feeling Imagination Purify Sound State
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Instrument Music Myself Pattern People Thinking
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
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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Help Horn Play Time Yourself
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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Beginning Expression Goodness Knowledge Music People Possible Soul Spiritual Talk
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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Bad Escape Feeling Listening Music Myself Time Walk
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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Beginning Goodness People Possible See
Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
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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Bad Force Goodness Misery Reality Suffering True

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