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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Change is inevitable in music – things change.

John Coltrane

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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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  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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  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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  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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  Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

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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’m into scales right now.

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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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  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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  All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

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  I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

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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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  My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

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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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  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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