I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
JOHN COLTRANEYou can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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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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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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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 want to be the force which is truly for good.
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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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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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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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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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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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