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25 quotes by Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
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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 had a... →

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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 all of our natural... →

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I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

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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 treated, and the... →

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

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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 be a great inspiration... →

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It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come... →

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I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

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What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

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Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real... →

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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 small, funky... →

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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 of treated not in a... →

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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 sort of these inferior... →

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