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Jazz Quotes by Sonny Rollins
- The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about…
- I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving…
- Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
- You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in…
- 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…
- 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…
- Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
- Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.
- I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
- 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…
More Jazz Quotes
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. — Travis Barker
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned… — Steven Adler