John Coltrane Video

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again."

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

�The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain�

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.