I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That… — Maurice White Copy Share Image
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work. — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image