John Coltrane Quotes
In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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I write slowly and get distracted a lot.
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I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.
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I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
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In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.
