I’m into scales right now.
JOHN COLTRANEJazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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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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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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