All 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… Atmosphere
- 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… Able
- 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… Him
- 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
- 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… Actually Adapt
- Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind. Charlie
- 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
- I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. Anything Else
- Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. Absorb
- No one is original. Everyone is derivative. Derivative
- 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… Alive
- I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not. Inspirational
- Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. Inspirational
- Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. Ability
- I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. Create
- 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… Anything Controversial