. . . John Coltrane, that is. Forty fours years gone, last week. . .
“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.”
“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.”
“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. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.”
“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere”
“I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.”
“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music 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.”
"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."
"I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once."
“The first violins have the most interesting part.”
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