More - John Coltrane Quotes

This Half Note material really comes at a summit, ... It's the high point of a sound that the band had been cultivating, basically, since 1961. The music that was recorded there comes at the strongest point of that band, playing that sound. Right after that, they start changing and going other places.

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’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

 Listener

It starts with this group: with McCoy and Elvin and Jimmy Garrison.

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. . . ThatÆs what I would like to do. I think thatÆs one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicianÆs is through his music.

John Coltrane

 

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere

John Coltrane

 

says Price. ''He's more than a musician: a spiritual leader, a political leader, and just a leader of human nature around the world.

John Coltrane

 

says Jackson. ''It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert.

John Coltrane

 Football

One Down, One Up.

John Coltrane

 

I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

John Coltrane

 

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music 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