Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.