Quotes by Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

…this is my dilemma. I’m a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished – there are so many layers. So when you solo, yeah, you might get into one thing, but then, hey, everything has implications! You can hear the next level. And that’s how I feel about improvising – there’s always another level.

Guy

Hey

Next Level

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

America

Culture

Rooted

But if I didn’t have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Horny

Making Money

Play

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

Charlie

Mind

Stuck

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.

Artist

Long

Musician

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.

Classical Music

Europe

Real

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America’s culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

America

Humanity

People

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

Firsts

Thinking

Trying

I am interested in my music lasting only while I’m alive. I’m not writing for the future.

Alive

Lasting

Writing

I don’t want to appear hostile, like I’m hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don’t appreciate jazz. I don’t think it’s that. I think it’s something more. It’s something a little bit more complicated than that.

Appreciate

People

Thinking

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America

Appreciate

Appreciation

Artist

Atmosphere

Beautiful

Believe

Charlie

Civilization

Classical Music

Clubs

Country

Creating Things

Culture

Dedication

Derivatives

Despair

Drinking

Ends

Essence

Europe

Example

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Feels

Firsts

Flower

Guy

Hard Times

Heavyweights

Hey

Horny

Humanity

Ideas

Important

Inspiration

Inspirational

Islands

Jazz

Jazz And Life

Jazz Improvisation

Knowing

Knows

Lasting

Legends

Life

Long

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Making Money

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Quotes by Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

But if I didn’t have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

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.

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.

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America’s culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I’m alive. I’m not writing for the future.

I don’t want to appear hostile, like I’m hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don’t appreciate jazz. I don’t think it’s that. I think it’s something more. It’s something a little bit more complicated than that.

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