97 Quotes by John Coltrane

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

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.

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

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.

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

Ive found youve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.