John Coltrane Quotations

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.

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.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

I want to be the force which is truly for good.

I've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.

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