John Coltrane Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967

Topics

LifeLiveMusicProblemYouGoal

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

Joe Jackson

MistakesMake

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

Jo Nesbo

FriendMyselfMeWritingBelieveUp

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Jennifer Egan

DoctorLibraryPicturesGrandfather

Bad company corrupts good character.

Menander

GoodCharacterBadCompanyCorrupts

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people consider Lincoln our greatest president ever and the fact that he was also a man assassinated at the age of 56 and had a widow with mental problems is what makes it all so fascinating.

Michael Beschloss

AgeGreatManPeopleProblemsOut

Liberace was a lovely guy.

Michael Douglas

LovelyGuyLiberace

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

St. Jerome

FriendLongDifficultyFoundHardly

I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.

Maryanne Wolf

I AmBrainReadingLearnUniqueNew

The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on.

Mira Sorvino

HistoryPeopleSmallThinkYouLift

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

Louis XIV

LiveWishThanLessMeanestWhile

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

Jason Reynolds

TimeWordsPoetrySmallReading

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Jose Saramago

QuestionsMilitaryAskTwoAlways

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