I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
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 RollinsI have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.
Sonny RollinsThere have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
Sonny Rollins