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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.

John Coltrane

Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
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
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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Beginning Goodness People Possible See
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
Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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Existence Music Ourselves Word
Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Change Music
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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Discover End Feeling Imagination Purify Sound State
My 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.
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Expression Goal Knowledge Life Live Music Myself Religious True
I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Force Goodness Myself True
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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Believe Goodness Growth Man Myself
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Oneself Positive Thinking Vibration
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
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.
JOHN COLTRANE

Beautiful Life Music Myself Need People Question
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself

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