I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
JOHN COLTRANEI 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.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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I’m into scales right now.
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The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I’m trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven’t sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I’m trying to work through and get the one essential.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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