John Coltrane Inspirational Quotes (31)

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

I'm into scales right now.

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

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

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

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.