Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
Sonny RollinsImprovisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
Sonny RollinsThere have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
Sonny RollinsHow ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.
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