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.
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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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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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.
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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’m into scales right now.
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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’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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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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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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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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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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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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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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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