When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, thereโs one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.
John ColtraneGod breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
John ColtraneMy music is the spiritual expression of what I am โ 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 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 Coltrane