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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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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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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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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«Tomorrow I have the pain of the parade.'
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At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
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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.
