All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right. John Coltrane More Quotes by John Coltrane More Quotes From John Coltrane My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing. John Coltrane live you music life I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further. John Coltrane own see jazz boundaries In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it's the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives. John Coltrane feel better situation effort I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing. John Coltrane lose think space way I find it's only when something is trying to come through I really practice. And then, I don't know how many hours. It's all day. John Coltrane day know practice trying I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor. John Coltrane influence real listening time From a technical viewpoint, I have certain things I'd like to present in my solos. To do this, I have to get the right material. It has to swing, and it has to be varied. John Coltrane swing present things like
