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Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
Sonny Rollins
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Sonny Rollins
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: September 7
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Theodore Walter Rollins
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I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.
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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 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'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
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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 am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.
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