Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.
Sonny RollinsI am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
Sonny RollinsI'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.
Sonny RollinsI am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.
Sonny Rollins