American - Musician | September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967
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
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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.
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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.
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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
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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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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.
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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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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
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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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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.
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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.
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