Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
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.