Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. John Coltrane More Quotes by John Coltrane More Quotes From John Coltrane Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft. John Coltrane jazz dark fall Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band. John Coltrane rocks band play 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. John Coltrane music wish firsts I'm into scales right now. John Coltrane scales jazz music The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes. John Coltrane music eye play Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. John Coltrane music wish firsts I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it John Coltrane play inspirational thinking 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. John Coltrane musical bird thinking 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. John Coltrane christian men thinking I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people. John Coltrane music change people thinking I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces 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. John Coltrane words good suffering world I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed. John Coltrane experience music heart time When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups. John Coltrane good you music people Thankfully now, through the merciful hand of God, I do perceive and have been fully reinformed of his omnipotence. It is truly a love supreme. John Coltrane through now god love I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do. John Coltrane best good men believe Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things 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 that in some way. The musician's is through his music. John Coltrane you universe music life I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light. John Coltrane look you light time In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. John Coltrane me spiritual god life I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. John Coltrane picture things think universe Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it. John Coltrane back you tired way
