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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.

John Coltrane

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
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
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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Beginning Goodness People Possible See
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I’m after something. If I make money, fine. But I’d rather be striving. It’s the striving, man, it’s that I want.
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Change Man Real Risk Strive
I’ve always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn’t have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
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Feeling Known Man Myself Name Thinking Truth
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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Law Music Nature Source
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Existence Faith Knowledge Music Myself Spiritual
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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Beginning Expression Goodness Knowledge Music People Possible Soul Spiritual Talk
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
Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Change Music
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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Divine Language Musical Myself People Point Soul Talk

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