Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
JOHN COLTRANEConsidering the great heritage in music that we have – the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come – I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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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’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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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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’m into scales right now.
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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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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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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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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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