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There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself . . . I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
Source: Interview, 1962.
-- John Coltrane, (Sep 23 1926-1967), US jazz musician, composer, bandleader; His influence on jazz of the 1960s and '70s was at least as strong as Charlie Parker's had been in the 1940s and '50s.