You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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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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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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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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