Ayler Quotes & Sayings

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music. — Albert Ayler

Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states. — Barack Obama

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain

Good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me
and, with these things to make a life. — Richard Ford

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long. — Graham Norton

Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me. — Albert Ayler

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well. — David Brazzeal

It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz - Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor - could never become owners of cleaning shops in malls across from railroad stations. — Haruki Murakami

Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well. — David S. Ware

If people don't like my music now, they will. — Albert Ayler

Music is the healing force of the universe. — Albert Ayler

For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God — Albert Ayler

John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music
John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator. — Albert Ayler

We must be as pure as our music. — Albert Ayler

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost. — Albert Ayler