Crasses et Voluptés

A lot of younger musicians were hanging around with Elvin Jones and, ah, they were talking about, "Man, you know, we hear the intensity you guys played when you were playing with Coltrane . I mean, what was that like? How do you, like, play with that kind of intensity?" And Elvin looks at them and says, "You gotta be willing to die with the motherfucker." And then they started laughing like kids do waiting for the punchline and then they realize, somewhere in the middle of that, he was serious. 

Coltrane