God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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 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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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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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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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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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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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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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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