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 RollinsI think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
Sonny RollinsI'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
Sonny Rollins