Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
JOHN COLTRANEAll a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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.
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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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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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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 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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