John Coltrane Quotes

What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.

A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.

The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

I'm a big believer in communication.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.

I think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.

The music is really about sharing an experience. That's why we call it Stay Human. It's like we're sharing this genuine human exchange.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

Friendship requires great communication.

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.

That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?