John Coltrane Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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It is important for me to remember that time learning anything substantial, even if it's not my favourite topic, is time well used.
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Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.
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You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.
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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.
