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Sonny Rollins

"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."
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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
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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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"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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"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
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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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"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
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