All of the technique doesn’t matter only if the feeling is right.
JOHN COLTRANEThere is never any end, There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we’ve discovered in its pure state.
More John Coltrane Quotes
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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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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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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Don’t ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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Change is inevitable in music – things change.
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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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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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I’m into scales right now.
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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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Whatever I’d say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I’ve ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.
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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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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.
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