John Coltrane Quotes About Music
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The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
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Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
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All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.
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Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.
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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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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
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Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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I'm into scales right now.
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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 sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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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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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.
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
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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.
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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
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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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