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

John Coltrane

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Oneself Positive Thinking Vibration
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
Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
JOHN COLTRANE

Existence Music Ourselves Word
God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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Breathe Feeling Gentle God Ourselves
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
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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Law Music Nature Source
I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Force Goodness Myself True
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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Essential Myself Play Reason Sound Time Work
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself… I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
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Beautiful Life Music Myself Need People Question
Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Fun Investment Serious
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
Change is inevitable in music – things change.
JOHN COLTRANE

Change Music

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