John Coltrane Quotes

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• God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
• We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that…
• The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't…
• I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it
• Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
• Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.
• 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…
• I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.
• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music,…
• My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem…
• 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…
• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
• I'm into scales right now.
• All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
• You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
• The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
• Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.
• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
• All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

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