The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
JOHN COLTRANEThe first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
JOHN COLTRANESometimes 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.
JOHN COLTRANEAll 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.
JOHN COLTRANESometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
JOHN COLTRANEJazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
JOHN COLTRANEI’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
JOHN COLTRANEYou can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
JOHN COLTRANEMy 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.
JOHN COLTRANEMy 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.
JOHN COLTRANEAll a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
JOHN COLTRANEInvest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
JOHN COLTRANEI’m into scales right now.
JOHN COLTRANEWhen you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
JOHN COLTRANEI think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
JOHN COLTRANEConsidering 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.
JOHN COLTRANE