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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

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
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.
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Better Friendship Greatness Known Life Musician Myself
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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Communication Emotional Feeling Necessary Reaction Thinking Understand
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Force Goodness Myself True
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
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Oneself Positive Thinking Vibration
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
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
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
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
Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Fun Investment Serious
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
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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Bad Escape Feeling Listening Music Myself Time Walk

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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