John Coltrane

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

— John Coltrane

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

— John Coltrane

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

— John Coltrane

I thought about this question. I answered it as best I could [at the press conference]. I felt I didn't tell [the reporter] what I really wanted to say. He thought I was Christian. And I am by birth; my parents were and my early teachings were Christian. But as I look upon the world, I feel all men know the truth. If a man was a Christian, he could know the truth and he could not. The truth itself does not have any name on it. And each man has to find it for himself, I think.

— John Coltrane

Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.

— John Coltrane

Rushin' Lullaby.

— John Coltrane

God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.

— John Coltrane

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.

— John Coltrane

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

— John Coltrane