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Sonny Rollins Quotes
St. Thomas is actually an island melody, sort of a traditional island melody, so all I did was sort of make my arrangement on it. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
A lot of guys died very early. Very few guys, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, very few of those guys reached my age of 67, which I am at the present. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
But if I didnt have to make money, I would still play my horn. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. Thats what classical music is, real European music. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
I can name a lot of people whose productive, whose creativity dies when they got L.A. Maybe its too laid back. Its too comfortable. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
I dont think jazz should try to change. I think jazz is varied enough and there is so many different kinds of jazz. So jazz doesnt need to change. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
I dont want to appear hostile, like Im hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people dont appreciate jazz. I dont think its that. I think its something more. Its something a little bit more complicated than that. - 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
I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
I guess fortunate that Im still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have. - 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 have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. - 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 think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. - 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. Thats what I worry about more than I worry about jazz. - 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
Ive played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. Ive been fortunate enough to play with them, a whos who. All of those guys, Ive been fortunate enough to have performed with. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
Its 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
Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, lets say that what we need is more of an official recognition. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. - 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
So the people over there have a very advanced appreciation of music and they recognize the power and the beauty and the wonderfulness of jazz. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
There are a lot of jazz musicians, however, who do have to go to Europe and most of their work is in Europe. Thats not true for me. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
There was a period which I refer to as the Golden Age of Jazz, which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. - 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
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 dont think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact. - Sonny Rollins Quotes
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