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Alice Coltrane

I didn’t want to be equal to him. I didn’t have to be equal to him and do what he did. That, I never considered. I don’t think like that. And whatever in the women’s liberation – that’s what they want. I didn’t want to be equal to him. I wanted to be a wife.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

When John said that he wanted me to play with him on piano, I told him that there were many others who were qualified. He said, ‘I want you there because you can do it.’

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly matters, and equally impossible for me to bring the mind down to mundane thoughts and general conversations.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

I didn’t have to inspire John toward the avant-garde; he did not need anything from me. That is why it’s so interesting that critics decided to dislike me. At some point the members of the quartet felt it was time for a change, and left on their own.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

After I fulfilled my Warners contract, I really wanted to go deeper into what the Lord wanted me to do.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

God’s work was what I felt was the greater work.

– Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane

Look at what trance means. It means to transcend… it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.

– Alice Coltrane

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