You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.