Showing posts with label John Coltrane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Coltrane. Show all posts
Carlos Santana Quotes
"John Coltrane represented getting to the Promised Land without the needle. He took the keys from hell with his sound, telling us that we don't have to do drugs in order to be connected anywhere from the microcosm to the top of the galaxy. He made a different kind of commitment with music." - Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana Quotes
"I've known for a long time that John Coltrane and Bob Marley re-arrange your molecular structure." - Carlos Santana
Patti Smith Quotes
"I cant say why it's so popular, but perhaps it fulfills people's need for prayer. 'A Love Supreme' has a feeling of moral authority in the most humble and spiritual way. - Patti Smith
Bono Quotes
"I was at the top of the Grand Hotel in Chicago (on tour 1987) listening to 'a Love Supreme' and learning the lesson of a lifetime. Earlier i had been watching televangelists remake God in their own image: tiny, petty and greedy. I knew from my earliest memories that the world was winding in a direction away from love, and I too was caught in it's drag. There is so much wickedness in this world but beauty is our consolation prize ... the beauty of John Coltrane's reedy voice, it's whispers, it's knowingness, it's sly sexuality, it's praise of creation. And so Coltrane began to make sense to me. I left the music on repeat and I stayed awake listening to a man facing God with the gift of his music." - Bono
Maurice White Quotes
"I remember when 'A Love Supreme' was released - I heard it at a friends house. Man, it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ... I felt [John] Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other." - Maurice White (of 'Earth, Wind and Fire')
Robby Kreiger Quotes
"The chords in ‘Light My Fire’ are based on [John] Coltrane’s version of this song. He just solos over A minor and B minor, which is exactly what we did. Coltrane had played with Miles on Kind of Blue and took the idea of modal soloing over one or two chords farther out than anybody. He was a real pioneer - he just kept evolving, going where no one had ever gone. He could always attain this state of ecstasy when he played. Live, there was so much energy, you couldn’t believe it. He would play for hours. It was indescribable." - Robby Kreiger (guitarist of 'The Doors')
Carlos Santana Quotes
"John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard A Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute." - Carlos Santana
Sam Andrew Quotes
"I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did." - Sam Andrew (guitarist and founding member of Janis Joplin's Big Brother & the Holding Company)
Colin Greenwood Quotes
"Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians." - Colin Greenwood (of 'Radiohead')
Branford Marsalis Quotes
"Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups." - Branford Marsalis
Albert Ayler Quotes
"John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator." - Albert Ayler
source: Valerie Wilmer, As Serious As Your Life, p.31
source: Valerie Wilmer, As Serious As Your Life, p.31
Cecil Taylor Quotes
"In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist." - Cecil Taylor
source: Cole, John Coltrane, p.193
source: Cole, John Coltrane, p.193
Wes Montgomery Quotes
"You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing." - Wes Montgomery
source: Interview with Downbeat (1961)
source: Interview with Downbeat (1961)
Miles Davis Quotes
"Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth." - Miles Davis (After Davis was questioning the increasing length of John Coltrane solos, and Trane answered "I don't know how to stop.")
Thelonious Monk Quotes
"I don't conside myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself." - Thelonious Monk
Elvin Jones Quotes
"If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth." - Elvin Jones
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules." - Herbie Hancock
Wynton Marsalis Quotes
"I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it." - Wynton Marsalis
