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Sonny Rollins

"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."

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"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."

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"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
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"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
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"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
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"What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact."
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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
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"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
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"Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music."
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"I 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."
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"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."
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