I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
JOHN COLTRANEDamn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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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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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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’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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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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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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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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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 think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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