"When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time."

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Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

— John Coltrane