Coltrane Quotes

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.