I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
JOHN COLTRANEMy 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.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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I’m into scales right now.
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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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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’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 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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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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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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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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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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