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I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.

John Coltrane

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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Existence Faith Knowledge Music Myself Spiritual
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’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
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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Count Feeling Inspirational Rule
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
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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Direction Move Music Start
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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Beginning Expression Goodness Knowledge Music People Possible Soul Spiritual Talk
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
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
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
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
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
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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Change Music
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

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