Trane's Quotes

#1. Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.

John Green

#2. Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

Richard G. Wilkinson

#3. That man is ... odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino

Umberto Eco

#4. What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.

Helen Macdonald

#5. One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Jon Meacham

#6. The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live ... it is our instructor.

Billy Graham

#7. But you could see deep inside Darth was struggling. Because deep inside he was Anakin. There's no Anakin in Trane Keaton! I shouted then I found myself on my back in the bed with Chace on top of me.

Kristen Ashley

#8. Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Sidney Blumenthal

#9. Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Bill Vaughan

#10. We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any.

Jack Vance

#11. See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Herbie Hancock

#12. Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

Miles Davis

#13. Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Albert Ayler

#14. Now listen for your song. Everybody's got a song. When I used to chase the Trane - John Coltrane that is - he used to tell me, 'If I know a man's sound, I know the man.' Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?

David Mutti Clark

#15. One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.

Astra Taylor

#16. John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

Alan Vega

#17. To Seek Glory in Battle is Glorious emerged high above the planet's southern continent, almost two thirds of the way to the pole.

Craig Alanson

#18. You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.

Wynton Marsalis

#19. When you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard, someone is getting smarter, and somebody is winning, just remember that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger