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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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 music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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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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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.
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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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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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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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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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 main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
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