One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason … - Sonny Rollins

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What I love about what I do is expanding people's minds on the topics of gender expression, gay rights, and most of all, entertaining them while I do it.

Sonny Rollins

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

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Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say.

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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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What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

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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 feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

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