Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
JOHN COLTRANEDamn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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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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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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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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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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I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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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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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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