I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
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.