John Coltrane

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s not what you do, but the way you’re doing it and in the end that’s all that we have.

To me, the guitar cuts through. It carries more than the organ, but the organ has got more guts.

By and large Jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Let my children have music.

Surrender your whole being to a note and gravity disappears.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Count don’t do nothin’. But it sure sounds good.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can’t stop.

It’s not uncomfortable for me to be a sideman, but I feel more comfortable as a bandleader.

He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it.

I’ll be writing songs till I die. There’s just no question.

It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.

One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?