Showing posts with label Sonny Rollins Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonny Rollins Quotes. Show all posts
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"Even if you have some brilliant jazz ideas, it's going to be difficult to get them across unless you have (a) a distinctive sound or (b) a loud sound. These are musts." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 music, really." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 enough to despair." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"...this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished - there are so many layers. So when you solo, yeah, you might get into one thing, but then, hey, everything has implications! You can hear the next level. And that's how I feel about improvising - there's always another level." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 type dives." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25." -Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 we need is more of an official recognition." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with." -Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 again." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 a monthly jazz show?" - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"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 resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz." - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Quotes
"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society." - Sonny Rollins
