I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
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.
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.