Coltrane Quote by Tom Verlaine Download Open image “When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.” — Tom Verlaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coltrane Grades Records Saxophone
My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing… — Rakim 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 and more… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I… — Bobby Keys Copy Share Image
I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn't really date… — Luke James Copy Share Image
[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator. — Albert Ayler Copy Share
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say… — Bill Cosby Copy Share
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. … The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or… — Carlos Santana Copy Share