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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

John Coltrane

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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Bad Force Goodness Misery Reality Suffering True
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Expression Goal Knowledge Life Live Music Myself Religious True
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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End Music Myself Thinking Time Wrong
Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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Important Listening Person Yourself
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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Help Horn Play Time Yourself
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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Believe Goodness Growth Man Myself
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
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
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
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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Feeling Known Man Myself Name Thinking Truth
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
JOHN COLTRANE

Existence Faith Knowledge Music Myself Spiritual

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