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

John Coltrane

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
I’m into scales right now.
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Music Myself Right Scale
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Darkness Elevator Monk Work
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
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
All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
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Feeling Right Technique
Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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Fun Investment Serious
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Interest Musician Thinking Truth
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
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
God breathes through us so completely, So gently we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything.
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Breathe Feeling Gentle God Ourselves
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
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
I think I know what it is but don’t ask me to play it.
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Known Myself Play Thinking
I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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Force Goodness Myself True
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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Communication Emotional Feeling Necessary Reaction Thinking Understand

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