John Coltrane Quotes

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• One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

  John Coltrane

  Carpe Diem, Positive Vibrations, Positive Thoughts

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Fun, Guitar

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• 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

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• Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Damn

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• Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

  John Coltrane

  Listening, Important, Bigs

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• I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I
  know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery
  to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which
  is truly for good.

  John Coltrane

  Real, Opposites, Suffering

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• I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

  John Coltrane

  People, Soul, Musical

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• The real risk is not
  changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But
  I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

  John Coltrane

  Real, Men, Risk

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• God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

  John Coltrane

  Breathe, Feels

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Play, Jazz

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Expression

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• There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Sound, Needs

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• During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Mean

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Coltrane plays standards".

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Jazz And Life, Source

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• I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

  John Coltrane

  Believe, Men, Want

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Feelings, Technique

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• I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

  John Coltrane

  Song, Rain, Play

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• Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . Thats what I would like to do. I think thats one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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• Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

  John Coltrane

  Jazz

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

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• 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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• 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 because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Religious, Expression

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• When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Style, Different

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