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Sonny Rollins Quotes

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No one is original. Everyone is derivative  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don’t think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That’s what classical music is, real European music  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) Jazz never ends... it just continues  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) But if I didn’t have to make money, I would still play my horn  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I’ll know when I find the ultimate sound  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I hate music. I wasted my life  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one’s own  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I’m now a legend, whether I want to be or not  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That’s what I worry about more than I worry about jazz  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I am interested in my music lasting only while I’m alive. I’m not writing for the future  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress... so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I’m fortunate that I’m making a living at it now because I’m not equipped to do anything else  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress... So that, even the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair  (Sonny Rollins Quotes) I’ve played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I’ve been fortunate enough to play with them, a who’s who. all of those guys, I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed with  (Sonny Rollins Quotes)
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