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God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.

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
Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Change Music
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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Instrument Music Myself Pattern People Thinking
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I’m after something. If I make money, fine. But I’d rather be striving. It’s the striving, man, it’s that I want.
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Change Man Real Risk Strive
I’ve always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn’t have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
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Feeling Known Man Myself Name Thinking Truth
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
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
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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Essential Myself Play Reason Sound Time Work
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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Himself Listening Musician Picture Universe
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
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
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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Law Music Nature Source
Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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Existence Music Ourselves Word

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