I’m into scales right now.
JOHN COLTRANEGod breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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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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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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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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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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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