Sonny Rollins

“I'm still trying to find the perfect saxophone sound. I'm just looking for a sound that's characteristic of my ideology.”

“Jazz is the lily in the pond of value.”

“The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, so are we all.”

“I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to be names to things.”

“Music is an open sky.”

“When you hear a great jazz soloist, it's like you're hearing a person thinking out loud.”

“You can't think and play at the same time.”

“I'm always trying to find something new. It's my nature.”

“Music represents the highest of all ideals.”

“I've always been my own worst critic.”

“I feel that what I'm doing is a calling. I would be doing it regardless of whether I was being paid for it, or not.”

“I'm not a god, I'm just a musician.”

“What I’m looking for is a certain sound that will take me to a place. A place of joy, a place of peace, a place of love.”

“Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.”

“I try to live in a way that is true to myself. I think that's the most important thing.”

“The whole point of what I’m doing is to be in the moment.”

“I believe that we are all put here for a reason, and that reason is to make the world a better place.”

“I feel that I'm a spiritual person. I'm not a religious person.”