Sonny Rollins Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

  Sonny Rollins

  Life, Music, Nature

• Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz And Life, Type

• 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 my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Moving, Jazz

  "Sonny Rollins: 'You Can't Think And Play At The Same Time'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. May 3, 2014.

• 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

  Music, Dedication, Important

• No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Derivatives, Jazz

• 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 anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs).

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Believe, Thinking

• 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

  Music, Progress, Despair

• I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz, Making A Living

• I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Essence, Jazz Improvisation

• I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Want, Legends

• Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Spiritual, Jazz

• Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Artist, Jazz

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