Church Quote by Wayne Shorter

You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of…

— Wes Montgomery

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is…

— Archie Shepp

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

— Elvin Jones

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and…

— Bill Dixon

“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each one quietly…

— Janelle Gray

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

— Jan Garbarek

“The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in…

— Karl Marlantes

“So many people died last year: the accidental overdose, the car wreck in East Hampton, the surprise illness. People just disappeared. I fall asleep…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and…

— Donald Byrd

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

— Lee Konitz