I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.
Sonny RollinsMany jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
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.
Sonny Rollins