"I want to be the force which is truly for good." - John Coltrane in 1966, as told Frank Kofsky One afternoon in November 1966, Frank Kofsky took the train out to Long Island. He was about to spend the day with John Coltrane. Kofsky brought his tape recorder and what we get to hear is the conversation the two men had as they drove through town and made a few stops along the way. Coltrane had moved to Huntington, New York with his wife Alice and their children in n 1964. They lived in a modest house on a quiet, tree-lined street. It was a home to raise a family. Coltrane had just turned 40. He would die from liver cancer less than a year later. During this episode Coltrane talks about moving to the country, setting up to practice, connecting with the sound of an instrument, Malcolm X, music as means of expressing that state of society, and how he wanted to change the world. More Choice Coltrane "I keep a horn on the piano and I have a horn in my bedroom." "Music, being expression of the human heart or the human being itself, does express just what is happening." "In any situation that we find in our lives, when there’s something we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better." Here the full interview: ****** Get more Coltrane on our website including Coltrane the saint, more quotes from this one of Coltrane's final interviews, his battles with Miles Davis, and the super quartet behind Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" ****** Subscribe for new episodes every other Tuesday (it's free): ****** Executive Producer: David Gerlach Animator: Patrick Smith Audio Producer: Amy Drozdowska Music You Heard John Coltrane @ 0:07 “In a Sentimental Mood” @ 2:27 “My Favorite Things” APM MUSIC @ 0:32 Simon Thorpe (PRS), John Donaldson (BMI) “Break Out” @ 3:10 Jean Gobinet (SACEM) “I Was Born Here” @ 3:35 Colin Towns (PRS) “Downcast” @ 4:00 Michele Generale (SIAE), Femi Olasehinde (PRS), Paolo Porta (SIAE) “Run Time” ****** Photos Dutch National Archives Impulse Records / Charles Stewart Watch our previous episodes: ****** Ray Bradbury on Madmen ****** Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty ****** Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo ****** BB King on The Blues ****** Elliott Smith on Freaks ****** Robin Williams on Masks ****** Wayne Coyne on Living with Death ****** Maya Angelou on Con Men ****** Bette Davis on The Sexes ****** Michael Jackson on Godliness ****** Jimi Hendrix on The Experience ****** Meryl Streep on Beauty ****** Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness ****** David Bowie on Stardust ****** Gene Wilder on The Truth ****** John Lennon on Love ****** Johnny Cash on The Gospel ****** Heath Ledger on Role Playing ****** Tupac on Life and Death ****** Kurt Cobain on Identity ****** Janis Joplin on Rejection ****** Barry White on Making Love ****** Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid ****** Carol Burnett on Finding Home ****** Grace Kelly on JFK ****** Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power ****** Beastie Boys on Being Stupid ****** David Foster Wallace on Ambition ****** Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales ****** Larry King on Getting Seduced ****** Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful ******