To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
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 discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
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.