John Coltrane

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

“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.”

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

“I thought about this question. I answered it as best I could [at the press conference]. I felt I didn't tell [the reporter] what I really wanted to say. He thought I was Christian. And I am by birth; my parents were and my early teachings were Christian. But as I look upon the world, I feel all men know the truth. If a man was a Christian, he could know the truth and he could not. The truth itself does not have any name on it. And each man has to find it for himself, I think.”

“Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.”

“Rushin' Lullaby.”

“God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.”

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

“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.”