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

~John Coltrane

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In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it's the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.

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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.

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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.

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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.

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Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

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In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

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I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

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I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

~John Coltrane

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 23rd, 1926

Died: July 17th, 1967

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