I want to be the force which is truly for good.
JOHN COLTRANEInvest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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I’m into scales right now.
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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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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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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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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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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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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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