John Coltrane Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

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

  John Coltrane

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Coltrane plays standards".

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

• 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

• Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.

  John Coltrane

  Order, Play, Piano

  "Coltrane on Coltrane" in Downbeat, September 29, 1960.

• 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

• Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

  John Coltrane

  Fall, Dark, Jazz

  "Coltrane on Coltrane". Downbeat, September 29, 1960.

• 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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