Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
More Quotes by John Coltrane
God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.