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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – 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.John Coltrane
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I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what I want to do. As I am growing to become whatever I become, this will just come out on the horn. Whatever that's going to be, it will be. I am not so much interested in trying to say what it's going to be. I don't know. I just know that good can only bring good.John Coltrane
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I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize, ' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.John Coltrane
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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
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.John Coltrane