The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
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.
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.