From Sonny Rollins’s notebooks
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
Sonny Rollins’s notebooks
“One day in the future people will be saying ‘Yes I once saw Sonny Rollins.’”
Sonny Rollins on presidents
Who’d make a better one, the present occupant or Lester Young?
“There’s no dying in art”
Sonny Rollins: “Humans and materialism die. But there’s no dying in art.”
A Sonny Rollins interview
“This world is not what it’s cracked up to be”: Sonny Rollins, interviewed for The New York Times.
“What are we here for?”
Sonny Rollins: “We got a short life, and what are we here for? To eat ice cream and have fun with girls? No.”
Bob Cranshaw (1932–2016)
Cranshaw was Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than fifty years.
New Yorker fail
I hope it’s a long time before The New Yorker gives space to another piece as tasteless and witless as this one by Django Gold.
Sonny Rollins on music
“Music is an open sky.”
Sonny Rollins, Kennedy Center honoree
“I’m one of the last guys left, as I’m constantly being told.”
Rollins, Salinger, Taylor
Sonny Rollins is a reluctant on-camera interviewee.
Happy birthday, Sonny Rollins
He turns 80 today.
Sonny Rollins and golf
"I do yoga, I eat right, and my enthusiasm and energy are still there. When I don’t have that, I’ll know it’s time to take up golf."
Sonny Rollins is 78
Link to the festivities at his website
Sonny Rollins on paying the rent
Words on life and art
Sonny Rollins in Illinois
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight, and we must remember that music is the -- one of the beautiful things of life. So we have to...