John Coltrane
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and was later at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 September 1926
CountryUnited States of America
My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.
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.
This Half Note material really comes at a summit, ... It's the high point of a sound that the band had been cultivating, basically, since 1961. The music that was recorded there comes at the strongest point of that band, playing that sound. Right after that, they start changing and going other places.
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.
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.
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
I'm into scales right now.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.