John Coltrane



John Coltrane (September 23 1926 - July 17, 1967), was an american Jazz musician, saxophonist and composer who has been categorized by the admins of this site as INFJ.

Quotes

 * “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.”


 * [On the expression of music:] “The whole of human experience at that particular time is being expressed.”


 * “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.”


 * “I make, or I have tried to make, consciously an attempt to change what I found in music. In other words I tried to say, 'this I feel could be better in my opinion,' and I will try to make it better.”


 * “You don’t go to school and sit down and say I know what you’re getting ready to teach me, you know? You sit there and you learn. You open your mind. You absorb. You’ve got to be quiet, you’ve got to be still to do this.”


 * “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.”


 * Ben Leubner: “...beneath the shy articulations, the frequent "ahs" and "ums," the professions of uncertainty, there lies a great sense of self-assurance.”
 * [In a review of Coltrane on Coltrane], John Schacht:“What comes across page after page is Coltrane’s genuine humility.”


 * Ashley Kahn: “Coltrane was definitely someone who was inspired by the concept of the infinite, and imagining how science and music and math all work together, and that there was some kind of universal truth.”