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Considering 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.

John Coltrane

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Oneself Positive Thinking Vibration
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Existence Faith Knowledge Music Myself Spiritual
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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Change Man Real Risk Strive
God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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Breathe Feeling Gentle God Ourselves
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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Himself Listening Musician Picture Universe
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
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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Aspect Awake Learning Music Myself Thinking
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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End Music Myself Thinking Time Wrong
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
JOHN COLTRANE

Music Myself Time Walk
Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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Important Listening Person Yourself
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Better Friendship Greatness Known Life Musician Myself
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Bad Escape Feeling Listening Music Myself Time Walk

Considering 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.

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Considering 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.

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