John Coltrane Quotes

Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels and that’s too bad.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.

I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

All of the technique doesn’t matter… only if the feeling is right.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Through Dizzy and Bird I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy and Bird.

The emotional reaction is all that matters.