How 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.
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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.Sonny Rollins
That's a pretty tall order, ... I don't want to sound too grandiose or that I can represent jazz in its entirety. But as one of few remaining people from that period the heyday of bebop during the '40s and '50s, I want to represent myself and the kind of musicians from that period, so that people who are new to the music can say, 'These people were good they aren't just a bunch of old moldy figs.'
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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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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.
Sonny Rollins
There are a lot of jazz musicians, however, who do have to go to Europe and most of their work is in Europe. That's not true for me.
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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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