Thanks for all your support and great love to John Coltrane.
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LISTEN TO JOHN COLTRANE
John Coltrane Interview
"I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth."
"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, to help humanity free itself from its hangups. I want to speak to their souls."
"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."
"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."
"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’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music."
John Coltrane
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By Miles Davis
"He was so focused on his music, that while on the bandstand, you could put a naked woman in front of Coltrane while he was playing and Trane wouldn't notice."
By Elvin Jones
"To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply."
By McCoy Tyner
"The Coltrane quartet I was in was like four pistons in an engine. John, Elvin, Jimmy and I were all working together to make the car go."
By Nat Hentoff
"Above all else, Cotrane is an honest musician and accordingly, he is never afraid of his feelings. At times, they rear forth in a spiral of yearning and searching. At other times, they are softer but no less open and penetrating."
