John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Most of these university types are total phonies. They’re scared to death somebody’s gonna find they don’t know something. They all read… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and… — Masego Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more… — Madlib Copy Share Image
I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a… — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him.… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image