Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
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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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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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’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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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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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being…When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups…I want to speak to their souls.
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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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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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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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