Carolina QuotesMy goal is to live the truly religious life and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is just part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am—my faith, my knowledge, my being.
John Coltrane Carolinian
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"The New Jazz", Newsweek (December 12, 1966), p. 108
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- 1966
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- p. 108
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