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Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.
- John Coltrane
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#Way
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
- John Coltrane
#He
#Picture
#Things
#Universe
#Wonderful
In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it's the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.
- John Coltrane
#Better
#Effort
#Feel
#Find
#Situation
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
#Closer
#Communion
#Feel
#Laws
#Nature
I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
- John Coltrane
#Experience
#Heart
#Human
#Music
#Time
Thankfully now, through the merciful hand of God, I do perceive and have been fully reinformed of his omnipotence. It is truly a love supreme.
- John Coltrane
#God
#Love
#Now
#Supreme
#Through
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
- John Coltrane
#Faith
#I Am
#Knowledge
#Music
#Spiritual
I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
- John Coltrane
#Back
#Light
#Look
#New
#Time
I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.
- John Coltrane
#Believe
#Best
#Good
#Grow
#Men
God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.
- John Coltrane
#Everything
#Feel
#God
#Through
#Us
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
- John Coltrane
#Divine
#Language
#People
#Speak
#Words
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
- John Coltrane
#Play
#Sincere
#You
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
- John Coltrane
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#Good
#Suffering
#Words
#World
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
- John Coltrane
#Desire
#Free
#Good
#Humanity
#Music
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
- John Coltrane
#Change
#Create
#Music
#People
#Thinking
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