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 ColtraneGod breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
John ColtraneSometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if 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 ColtraneDuring the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.
John Coltrane