All JOHN COLTRANE Quotes about “Jazz”

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.”
“Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.”
“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am â€” 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.”
“Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.”
“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. . . Thats what I would like to do. I think thats 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.”
“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.”
“Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.”
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.”
“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.”
“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.”
“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.”
“Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft”
“The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.”
“I'm into scales right now.”
“Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.”
“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.”
“Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.”

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