All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
JOHN COLTRANESometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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I’m into scales right now.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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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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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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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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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