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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
Maya Angelou
Love
Beautiful
Music
Art
You
Fall
Franklin
Van
Van Gogh
Find
Admire
John
Some
More
Aretha
Aretha Franklin
Coltrane
Beautiful Art
Like
Piece
Gogh
Human
Just
Human Beings
Realize
Created
Less
Chopin
Beings
Oliver
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
Alex Clare
Jazz
John
John Coltrane
Records
Coltrane
Also
Lot
Up
Listened
Blues
James
Really
Radiohead
Growing
Growing Up
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
Butch Trucks
Time
Think
John
John Coltrane
Davis
Coltrane
Days
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Any
Listened
Miles
Miles Davis
Early
Early Days
Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
Butch Trucks
Love
John
John Coltrane
Totally
Guy
Coltrane
He
Supreme
Himself
Listen
Plays
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.
Carlos Santana
Time
Mother
King
Everybody
Eye
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Marvin Gaye
Davis
Chavez
Coltrane
Mother Teresa
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Left
Up
Same
Same Time
Sixties
Grew
Miles
Miles Davis
Watching
Luther
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
Colin Greenwood
You
Musicians
Jazz
Group
Tools
Would
Coltrane
Get
Pro
Jazz Musicians
The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.
David Thewlis
Funny
Great
You
People
Wonderful
Amazing
Mark
Harry
Harry Potter
Kids
Williams
Great Fun
Bored
About
Potter
Coltrane
Well
Because
Around
Amazing People
Julie
Hang
Going
Might
Fun
Thing
Set
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
Jan Garbarek
Same Thing
Jazz
Else
Out
Something
Something Else
Davis
Coltrane
Doing
Same
Moving
Moving Out
Miles
Miles Davis
Certainly
Thing
Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'
Jason Moran
Love
Benchmark
Strings
Beats
Coltrane
Stuff
Like
Supreme
Got
Sound
Traditional
Up
Going
Should
Right
Album
I just want to play like Jimi Hendrix. I love other forms of music and wish I could play classical piano, or saxophone like John Coltrane, but that will never happen. Because my nature is to play electric guitar really well and to emulate my heroes from the late 1960s.
Joe Satriani
Love
Music
Nature
Guitar
Heroes
Will
Wish
Other
Late
Jimi Hendrix
Saxophone
John
John Coltrane
Classical
Could
Piano
Never
Coltrane
Like
Well
Because
Emulate
Just
Want
Happen
Forms
Really
Electric
Electric Guitar
Hendrix
Play
The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him. So we're all experiencing it on this subconscious level.
Kamasi Washington
Matter
Subconscious
John
John Coltrane
Fact
Except
Coltrane
Nobody
Him
Understands
Doing
Maybe
Experiencing
Even
Level
We've now got a whole generation of jazz musicians who have been brought up with hip-hop. We've grown up alongside rappers and DJs; we've heard this music all our life. We are as fluent in J Dilla and Dr Dre as we are in Mingus and Coltrane.
Kamasi Washington
Life
Music
Musicians
Generation
Jazz
Fluent
Our
Dre
Rappers
Brought
Coltrane
Alongside
Got
Hip-Hop
Been
Heard
Up
Jazz Musicians
Who
Whole
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
Dr
My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.
Kamasi Washington
Jazz
John
John Coltrane
Archie
Coltrane
Avant-Garde
Really
Dad
I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
Kim Gordon
Sometimes
Listening
Jazz
Think
Kind
Promote
John
John Coltrane
Record
Some
About
Coltrane
Weird
Know
Doing
Go
Were
Up
List
Want
Influences
Grew
Subtle
Then
Jazz Record
Things
I haven't been afraid of John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Bill Evans or Wayne Shorter or Herbie Hancock. Why would I be afraid of the Beatles?
Kurt Elling
Beatles
Wayne
Would
John
John Coltrane
Davis
Coltrane
Been
Afraid
Bill
Miles
Miles Davis
Why
Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.
Mary Halvorson
People
Guitar
Listening
Jazz
Those
John
John Coltrane
Horn
Records
Davis
Had
Coltrane
Primarily
Like
Liked
Were
Eric
Lot
Influences
Really
Miles
Miles Davis
Dad
Actually
Players
Started
Playing
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Love
Music
Time
Me
Eyes
Listening
Father
First
Big
Jazz
Sax
John
John Coltrane
Record
Brown
Had
Coltrane
He
Tenor
Come
Around
Clifford
Sound
Caught
Lot
Up
Bands
Improvisational
Where
Grew
Really
Illinois
Ear
Played
Player
You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.
Nipsey Hussle
You
Before
Control
Too
John
John Coltrane
Charlie
Charlie Parker
More
Voice
Parker
Coltrane
Instruments
Sound
Listen
Confident
Artists
Different
After
Them
Found
My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried to implement that in every thing I did, from my style, my cadence, the way I tried to pause and stagnate it; that all came from John Coltrane and listening to jazz albums. Trying to rhyme like a jazz player.
Rakim
Music
Listening
Style
Jazz
Every
Way
Saxophone
Bit
Tried
John
John Coltrane
Had
Coltrane
Implement
Like
Came
Trying
Did
Loved
Rhyme
Little
Little Bit
Pause
Thing
Played
Player
Albums
I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.
Rakim
Love
You
Jazz
John
John Coltrane
Coltrane
Know
Lot
Love You
My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.
Rakim
Time
Age
Impossible
Understanding
Young
Jazz
Saxophone
Hooked
Musician
John
John Coltrane
Brown
Ruth
Coltrane
Got
Doing
Aunt
Same
Same Time
Young Age
Which
Notes
Jazz Musician
Playing
Two
Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.
Roscoe Mitchell
God
You
Man
Down
Think
Must
Would
Would-Be
John
John Coltrane
Someone
Coltrane
Name
Like
Around
Go
Reply
Going
Oh
Oh My God
Ask
Your
Used
Street
Imagine
When you think about John Coltrane, in my opinion - and I think I share this opinion with a lot of people - his approach to music changed other people's approach to music.
Savion Glover
Music
You
People
Think
Changed
Other
Approach
John
John Coltrane
About
Coltrane
Share
Opinion
His
Lot
In My Opinion
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.
Simon Van Booy
Great
Heroes
Think
Great American
John
John Coltrane
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Coltrane
Like
Lincoln
American
I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody in my family sang, always lots of records, blues and jazz and soul, R&B, you know, like Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Coltrane, that kind of thing.
Tracy Chapman
Music
Family
You
Soul
Jazz
Everybody
Franklin
Kind
Records
Aretha
Aretha Franklin
Could
Coltrane
Soon
Like
Know
House
Sing
Talking
Always
Lots
Up
Jackson
Blues
Grew
Sang
Thing
Started
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
Tucker Carlson
Love
Religion
Man
Whatever
Jazz
Considers
Easy
John
John Coltrane
Coltrane
Merits
Supreme
Mock
Scripture
Holy
Who
Based
Founded
Album
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