John Coltrane Quotes

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

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

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

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

~ John Coltrane