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John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

~Alan Vega

Topics: Again Away Because Been Blows Coltrane Had Hear John John Coltrane Know Life Listening Lived More Now You

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Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

~Alex Clare

Topics: Also Blues Coltrane Growing Growing Up James Jazz John John Coltrane Listened Lot Radiohead Really Records Up

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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: America Brief Coltrane Considered Country Dismissed Effort Followed Important Kind Last Long Music People Played Result Studied Suicidal Time Time People Turn Were Who Wrong

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When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.

~Bill Dixon

Topics: Appeared Back Been Coltrane Did Died Filled Forward He His Look Maintained Motion Music Void Work

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Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

~Branford Marsalis

Topics: About Came Coltrane Day Few Groups He Jazz New New Orleans One Day Orleans Problem Scene Talking The Problem With Too Were

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I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays and put on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Kenny Burrell, Sarah Vaughn, John Coltrane - all these great, classic albums.

~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Topics: Albums Born Classic Coltrane Count Duke Early Father Get Great Jazz John John Coltrane Kenny Put Raised Sarah Sundays Time Up Used I Was Raised I Was Born

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I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

~Butch Trucks

Topics: Any Coltrane Davis Days Early Early Days John John Coltrane Listened Miles Miles Davis Rock Rock N Roll Roll Think Time

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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.

~Butch Trucks

Topics: Coltrane Guy He Himself John John Coltrane Listen Love Plays Supreme Totally

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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.

~Butch Trucks

Topics: Added Blues Chords Coltrane Complex Davis Foundation Gave John John Coltrane Like Made Miles Miles Davis Mix More Much Out People Play Possible Rock Rock N Roll Roll See Started Structure Than Then Three

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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

~Carlos Santana

Topics: Coltrane Davis Everybody Eye Grew King Left Luther Malcolm Malcolm X Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Marvin Gaye Miles Miles Davis Mother Mother Teresa Same Same Time Sixties Time Up Watching

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