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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

John Coltrane

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
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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Feeling Future Greatness Heritage Myself Optimist Reason Work
You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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Inspirational Music Passion Sincere Yourself
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Eyes Hear Music Myself Right
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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Believe Goodness Growth Man Myself
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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Expression Goal Knowledge Life Live Music Myself Religious True
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Close Musician Source
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
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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Divine Language Musical Myself People Point Soul Talk
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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Help Horn Play Time Yourself
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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Beautiful Life Music Myself Need People Question
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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End Music Myself Thinking Time Wrong
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
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
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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Music Myself Time Walk

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