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.
JOHN COLTRANEWhen you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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I’m into scales right now.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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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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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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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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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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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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 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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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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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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