Coltrane Quotes
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Coltrane Quotes & Sayings
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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
Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.
— John Coltrane
I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
— Ellar Coltrane
Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it.
— Karina Bliss
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that ...
— Carlos Santana
Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
— Robbie Coltrane
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
Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?
— Robbie Coltrane
Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
— Miles Davis
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
— Robbie Coltrane
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
— Colin Greenwood
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
— Wynton Marsalis
It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.
— Ellar Coltrane
Coltrane's labyrinthine solo plays on in my ears, never ending.
— Haruki Murakami
Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
— John Coltrane
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
— Lee Konitz
I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.
— Robbie Coltrane
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
— Tom Verlaine
I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.
— Ellar Coltrane
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
— Robbie Coltrane
Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?
— Ken Kesey
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere
— John Coltrane
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
I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it
— John Coltrane
Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
— John Coltrane
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
— Cornel West
After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right.
— John Coltrane
I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.
— Ellar Coltrane
I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.
— Robbie Coltrane
I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.
— Ellar Coltrane
I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.
— Ellar Coltrane
With you in my hand I can travel across the universe in one verse and skip moons to the tunes of Miles or Coltrane.
— Brandi L. Bates
I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
— Ellar Coltrane
I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.
— John Coltrane
I'm into scales right now.
— John Coltrane
I was raised to be some kind of artist.
— Ellar Coltrane
I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
— Robbie Coltrane
Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
— Geezer Butler
God breathes through us so completely ... So gently we hardly feel it ... yet it is our everything.
— John Coltrane
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
— Ted King
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
— Alice Coltrane
Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.
— Robbie Coltrane
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
— Robbie Coltrane
Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.
— John Coltrane
I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.
— Robbie Coltrane
I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.
— Ellar Coltrane
On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood.
— Brandi L. Bates
Change is inevitable in music - things change.
— John Coltrane
It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
— Ellar Coltrane
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
— Jan Garbarek
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.
— Simon Van Booy
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
— Isaac Mizrahi
The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.
— Robbie Coltrane
And I think he's been very keen to do that.
— Robbie Coltrane
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
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
— Colin Greenwood
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
— John Coltrane
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft
— John Coltrane
