Latest Sonny Rollins Quotes from Interviews

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• I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Jazz, Obligation

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• Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Ideas, Use

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• Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Knowing, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org