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.
JOHN COLTRANEI’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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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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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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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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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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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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