I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
Sonny RollinsI feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.
Sonny RollinsI think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?
Sonny RollinsThere have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
Sonny RollinsI want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.
Sonny Rollins