“Audiences do become part of the music in their own way, they’re breathing it with you, they’re receiving
what you experience or perceive, but they also give. And then you find out you’re not just playing a solo, you’re not playing for yourself, it’s for everybody. We talked earlier about John’s idea: it’s for all people
for all the time, for the universe itself, for God. Sometimes people put themselves very deeply into sound–so deep into it that they give up everything. It’s like they renounce everything at that moment just to live those moments of music. And that I’ve seen several times.” – Alice Coltrane

FROM  THE WIRE 218, INTERVIEW BY EDWIN POUNCEY