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

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.”
― John Coltrane

“My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
― John Coltrane

“After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right.”
― John Coltrane

“I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.”
― John Coltrane

“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere”
― John Coltrane

“There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror.”
― John Coltrane

“I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what I want to do. As I am growing to become whatever I become, this will just come out on the horn. Whatever that's going to be, it will be. I am not so much interested in trying to say what it's going to be. I don't know. I just know that good can only bring good.”
― john coltrane

“Lots of people imagine wrongly that 'My Favorite Things' is one of my compositions; I would have loved to have written it, but it's by Rodgers and Hammerstein.”
― John Coltrane

“Favorite Things' is my favorite piece of all those I have recorded.”
― John Coltrane

“You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”
― John Coltrane

“To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. 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 hang-ups.”
― John Coltrane

“Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That Is what I would like to do. I think that Is one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music”
― John Coltrane

“Моя цель - прожить действительно духовной жизнью и выразить это в моей музыке. Если вы живете именно так, то играть легко, потому что музыка часть такой жизни. Она очень, очень, глубоко в вас. Моя музыка это вдохновенное выражение моего Я - моей Веры, моего опыта, моего естества.”
― John Coltrane