I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
JOHN COLTRANE
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.
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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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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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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The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
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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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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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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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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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 never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing, the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.
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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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