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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.

John Coltrane

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
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Aspect Awake Learning Music Myself Thinking
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Oneself Positive Thinking Vibration
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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Existence Music Ourselves Word
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
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
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
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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Music Myself Time Walk
I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Force Goodness Myself True
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
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
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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Better Friendship Greatness Known Life Musician Myself
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
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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Bad Escape Feeling Listening Music Myself Time Walk

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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