I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be – at least, this is what I want to do.
JOHN COLTRANEAny time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock ‘n’ roll band.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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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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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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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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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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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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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I’m trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven’t sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I’m trying to work through and get the one essential.
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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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