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God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
John Coltrane
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John Coltrane
Age: 40 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 23
Died: 1967
Died: July 17
Bandleader
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Jazz Musician
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Hamlet
North Carolina
Trane
John William Coltrane
St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane
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I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.
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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.
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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.
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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
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I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
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Change is inevitable in music - things change.
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...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'.
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Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.
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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.
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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.
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Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically.
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I'm into scales right now.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
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