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…

— Alice Coltrane

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— Alice Coltrane

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

— 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…

— Alice Coltrane

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

— 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.…

— Alice Coltrane

I didn't have to inspire John toward the avant-garde; he did not need anything from me. That is why it's so interesting…

— Alice Coltrane

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence…

— Alice Coltrane

When John said that he wanted me to play with him on piano, I told him that there were many others who…

— Alice Coltrane

...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord…

— Alice Coltrane

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

— Alice Coltrane

Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be…

— Alice Coltrane

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

— Alice Coltrane

After I fulfilled my Warners contract, I really wanted to go deeper into what the Lord wanted me to do.

— Alice Coltrane

Look at what trance means. It means to transcend... it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path…

— Alice Coltrane

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

— Alice Coltrane

Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly…

— Alice Coltrane