John Coltrane Quotes
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I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
