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

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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Conductor
Jazz Musician
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Saxophonist
Hamlet
North Carolina
Trane
John William Coltrane
St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane
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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.
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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.
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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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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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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Change is inevitable in music - things change.
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
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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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I'm into scales right now.
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I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
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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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Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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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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I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
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