Presence Quotes by Alice Coltrane

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

— Alice Coltrane

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go…

— Alice Coltrane

When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human…

— Alice Coltrane

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

— Alice Coltrane

I didn't want to be equal to him. I didn't have to be equal to him and do what he did. That, I never…

— Alice Coltrane

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

— Alice Coltrane

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea…

— Alice Coltrane

Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple…

— Alice Coltrane

Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment…

— Alice Coltrane

Maybe other musicians are interested in different things, maybe they have greater monetary concerns. I hear people who have not changed, who haven't elevated…

— Alice Coltrane

God's work was what I felt was the greater work.

— Alice Coltrane

It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it…

— Alice Coltrane