John Coltrane Quotes
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.
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There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.
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I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
