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Letter "S" » Sonny Rollins Quotes
«I'll know when I find the ultimate sound,»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«Global Warning.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«That's a pretty tall order, ... I don't want to sound too grandiose or that I can represent jazz [in its entirety]. But as one of few remaining people from that period [the heyday of bebop during the '40s and '50s], I want to represent myself and the kind of musicians from that period, so that people who are new to the music can say, 'These people were good; they aren't just a bunch of old moldy figs.'»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«I am always happy to be practicing. Period, ... I enjoy just playing my horn and going into the type of meditation that playing involves. It puts me mentally in a place that is always transcendent and above real life. I love playing just for myself. It's a great experience.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«As the years went by and jazz got more popular and social conditions changed, you were able to have jazz as a topic introduced into the music curriculum in universities, ... I think that one thing that hip-hop and jazz have in common is that they are both coming out of the minority subculture and we've faced some of the same problems. They are attacked in different ways . . . but they are a minority in a majority culture, so they are unfortunately discriminated against by the larger portion of the majority community.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«I look at all that from the inside, so you'd probably have to ask someone else.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«I remember hearing that song around the house, and on the radio and everything, ... Wow, I haven't heard that record in so many years. It's one of my earliest memories of jazz. I believe in things like reincarnation, and it struck a chord someplace in my back lives or something.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
«highly, highly flattered by it all.»
Author: Sonny Rollins
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