"Tone wise, I would like to be able to produce a more beautiful sound, but now I'm primarily interested in trying to work what I have - what I know - down, into a more lyrical line - that's what I mean by beautiful - more lyrical, so it'll be, you know, easily understood." - John Coltrane
source: Interview with Carl-Erik Lindgren (1960)
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John Coltrane Quotes
"The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential." - John Coltrane
source: Interview with Carl-Erik Lindgren (1960)
source: Interview with Carl-Erik Lindgren (1960)
John Coltrane Quotes
"Keep a thing happenin' all throughout." - John Coltrane (addressing pianist McCoy Tyner before a studio version of "Dearly Beloved", 1964)
John Coltrane Quotes
"I thought about this question. I answered it as best I could [at the press conference]. I felt I didn't tell [the reporter] what I really wanted to say. He thought I was Christian. And I am by birth; my parents were and my early teachings were Christian. But as I look upon the world, I feel all men know the truth. If a man was a Christian, he could know the truth and he could not. The truth itself does not have any name on it. And each man has to find it for himself, I think." - John Coltrane
source: Liner notes for Live in Japan. Impulse. GRD-4-102, 1991.
source: Liner notes for Live in Japan. Impulse. GRD-4-102, 1991.
John Coltrane Quotes
"Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being … When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups … I want to speak to their souls." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"Sometimes I'd think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"Considering the great heritage in music that we have - the work of the giants of the past, the present, and the promise of those who are to come - I feel that we have every reason to face the future optimistically." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music." - John Coltrane
John Coltrane Quotes
"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." - John Coltrane
