Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
JOHN COLTRANEI think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
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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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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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I’m into scales right now.
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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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You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.
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The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I’m after something. If I make money, fine. But I’d rather be striving. It’s the striving, man, it’s that I want.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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I want to be the force which is truly for good.
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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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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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