My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
JOHN COLTRANE
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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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.
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I’m into scales right now.
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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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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 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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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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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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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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My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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