John Coltrane Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Coltrane plays standards".

• 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, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Expression

• Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Fun, Guitar

• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Expression

• You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Men, Knowing

• All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Jazz And Life, Source

• ...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

  John Coltrane

  Music, School, True Power

• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

  John Coltrane

  Music, People, Desire

• All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Feelings, Technique

• 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 so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Wish, Firsts

• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Wish, Firsts

• I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Communication, Emotional

• The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Eye, Play

• I'm into scales right now.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Jazz, Scales

• Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Thinking, Glasses

• 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 laws.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Law, Jazz

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