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I’m into scales right now.

John Coltrane

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 COLTRANE

Bad Escape Feeling Listening Music Myself Time Walk
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Expression Goal Knowledge Life Live Music Myself Religious True
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
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Instrument Music Myself Pattern People Thinking
Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
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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Himself Listening Musician Picture Universe
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
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
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
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
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
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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Discover End Feeling Imagination Purify Sound State
Considering the great heritage in music that we have – the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come – I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.
JOHN COLTRANE

Feeling Future Greatness Heritage Myself Optimist Reason Work

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