The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording,… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
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… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
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… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
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… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
...this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished - there are so… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
