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My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. –S.R.
Sonny Rollins
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Sonny Rollins
@sonnyrollins
The official account of Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus.
- Even though I can’t blow my horn anymore, I can still think and do my music in my head. I’m grateful for that. Music is so great, and so great to me. However, this stupid crazy world won’t go away and give me my peace. 1/7
- Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was born in New York City on this day in 1930. "So far so good for me. It’s all good." –S.R.
- "Greetings, everybody. 'Sonny Rollins is alive and well and living in upstate NY!' Not only living, but learning. For instance, in this world there is a big picture & a little picture. I'm all about the big picture, and therefore it's all good all the time. See you later. –Sonny"
- Replying to @sonnyrollinsThis kind of thinking makes you an unhappy, ignorant person—just as I was. Look, the Golden Rule is a start. I am learning every day, and now I can do my music mind with my Golden Rule mind. So far so good for me. It’s all good. —Sonny Rollins (8/19/22) 7/7
- Happy birthday, Thelonious Monk! "To Thelonious, my guru, and our guru." –S.R. (photog. unknown)
- On Roy Hargrove: “Having been fortunate to play with the super, super trumpet stars of the day, I found it inconceivable that this new kid on the block could be in that class, could be that good. He was. He is, and will always be.” -- S.R.
- On Wayne Shorter's passing: "This is too bad. Too bad for us." – S.R.
- Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk! "I looked up to him as a father figure—a guru, really, he was really into that music—that's all Monk cared about. He told me, 'Man, if there wasn't music in this world, this world wouldn't be shit.'" –S.R. to Musician Magazine, 1988.
- Art Kane’s “Great Day in Harlem” photograph was taken on this day in 1958. “Jazz had been seen as a bunch of ghoulish characters that came up after it got dark, like Dracula… this picture showed jazz musicians to be people.” –S.R., to CBC Radio (2019)
- Benny Golson: one of the irreplaceable people. Such an exceptional, unique musician. I will miss him so damn much. –S.R.
- "Hello everybody, let’s be safe and try to be healthy and try to think healthy and try to think safe for everyone in the new year." —S.R.
