"For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo."

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But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.

— Wynton Marsalis