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Sonny Rollins

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JOHN COLTRANE I actually am always a music first person.
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KENNY G Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to mor...
KENNY G I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in ...
KASKADE I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
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DAVID GUETTA We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to ...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS I do a lot of inward thoughts and meditation, ... I listen to a lot of music. I'm not an extremely r...
LALAH HATHAWAY My goal in life is to be the sort of person my dog thinks I am.
UNKNOWN Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six mon...
JONATHAN ALLEN There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I thi...
WILLIAM ORBIT I am concerned when tax policy doesn't worry enough about the man on the street. The perception that...
O. DONALD CHAPOTON I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
DANIEL BRYAN I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her musi...
TIKA SUMPTER I am an educator who thinks globally.
PAULO FREIRE I like to pose the question to myself: Am I a man who thinks he's an Angel or an Angel who thinks he...
MARILYN MANSON I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and...
CAROLINE KNAPP I only hope to be as good of a person as my dog thinks I am.
JUSTINE VOGT From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Son...
BROWNIE MCGHEE I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands....
JAMES MERCER I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ...
ERIC CLAPTON A person who thinks that he knows something better doesn’t know that his wife knows better than hi...
VIKRANT PARSAI This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's ...
MARILYN MANSON So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is...
MIROSLAV VITOUS I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much s...
ANAïS NIN I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much s...
ANAIS NIN Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something ev...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.
HARI KONDABOLU But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP I am happy.

I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.

I am happy.
VERA NAZARIAN It is difficult to find a courteous person today who isn't trying to sell you something
WILL SHRINER I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - wh...
ELLIE GOULDING From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me...
BROWNIE MCGHEE What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This m...
CARLOS ALBERTO Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joi...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is th...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD I don't have any interest in doing something that's weak musically.
BRAD PAISLEY I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a gl...
SAMIRA WILEY Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a pers...
SHELENA SHORTS It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN To the person who thinks the world is full of fools, look in the mirror.
VIKRANT PARSAI A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not...
POPE FRANCIS I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN I feel really reluctant to talk too much about it because this is only the first step in what we are...
GLEN SATHER Everyone has a valid reason for believing something or at least its valid to them
PARKER LOUIS SEELY I wanted to be very serious about being a musician - a guy who cares a lot about the music and the b...
JASON LEE Business owners are not trying to determine if a person is documented or not, or that the documents ...
DANIEL JARA I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
JEREMY CORBYN Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made pe...
PATTI SMITH Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that'...
JIMMY PAGE I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I...
LOIS LOWRY All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&#...
TRISTAN WILDS I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.
ERICA CERRA In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid...
PATRICK O'BRIAN I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am d...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE So the first woman to do something, the first African-American person to do something, the first gay...
CAROLYN M. BYERLY You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect somethin...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of thought. I am a mystic who is trying to con...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in...
WALLACE STEVENS That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whe...
ORNETTE COLEMAN I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody els...
BROWNIE MCGHEE Henry is about letting the guy off the hook, a song about being unworthy, ... It's common knowledge ...
BIF NAKED I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
YVONNE CRAIG Its important to understand that a legalist isn't just someone with higher standards or more rules t...
C.J. MAHANEY People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person ...
PENN JILLETTE It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think peopl...
MICHAEL BUBLE You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...
JEAN KERR My songs are about who I am.
CARLENE CARTER I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels tha...
SOPHIE HANNAH Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never acco...
LOU HOLTZ I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experienc...
WINONA RYDER Every time I looked in the gym there was Sonny running or Sonny shooting. I saw his dedication, desi...
STEPHON LEARY It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired b...
ED SHEERAN If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would h...
MUHAMMAD ALI Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fas...
DEYTH BANGER There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I undernea...
EMMY ROSSUM I am not a bad person," he said. "I am good person who has lived un a bad time.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.
DANNEL MALLOY There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an esc...
TATIANA MASLANY Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a...
CRISTIANO RONALDO The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea...
RAY CHARLES I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my person...
N. T. RAMA RAO, JR. A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the pe...
NAVEEN JAIN I have to give Ibo (Cooper) his props, as a musician and the kind of musician who can lead a band or...
ROGER LEWIS We were very, very close. Sonny and I have known each other for over 52 years. I'm all shook up abou...
FREDDIE BELL I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's wha...
ANTHONY JOSHUA Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but...
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SONNY ROLLINS highly, highly flattered by it all.
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SONNY BONO I think overall, from a deputy, from an undersecretary standpoint, the goal of a good leader is to g...
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SONNY TERRY I expect this tax moratorium to be passed on to the consumer and Georgia citizens who drive,
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SONNY LISTON How would you like to find out how good my right is?
SONNY LISTON It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.
SONNY LISTON Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
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SONNY CHIBA Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.
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SONNY LUBICK At that point in time, we're going for the win, ... If we ever had a chance to win one, this was it.
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SONNY PERDUE We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tel...
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SONNY PERDUE I came to say thanks to these troops and they gave me a blessing I'll never forget,
SONNY PERDUE Our hearts and prayers go out to their states,
SONNY PERDUE Our hearts just go out to these people,
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SONNY MEHTA I think it's somewhat horseplay.
SONNY JACKSON It wasn't hard to get them pumped up.
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SONNY SCHOFIELD (West Iredell) did a good job frustrating us. Every time we'd do a little bit, they'd knock us out o...
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HENRY ROLLINS Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
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ED ROLLINS I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi...
ED ROLLINS I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec...
ED ROLLINS Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare...
ED ROLLINS I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'...
ED ROLLINS There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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ED ROLLINS I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev...
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HENRY ROLLINS I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
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HENRY ROLLINS When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?"
HENRY ROLLINS It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the mor...
HENRY ROLLINS My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There’ll be black knights and...
EMME ROLLINS Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
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ED ROLLINS If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I...
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HENRY ROLLINS Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
HENRY ROLLINS My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, ...
HENRY ROLLINS I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a wa...
HENRY ROLLINS While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...
HENRY ROLLINS It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
HENRY ROLLINS I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkne...
HENRY ROLLINS Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, a...
HENRY ROLLINS My motto is, 'Never quit.'
HENRY ROLLINS As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends...
HENRY ROLLINS With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
HENRY ROLLINS I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees...
HENRY ROLLINS The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if...
ED ROLLINS If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you&...
HENRY ROLLINS Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people ...
HENRY ROLLINS We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection ...
HENRY ROLLINS Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to wor...
HENRY ROLLINS The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. Preside...
HENRY ROLLINS I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office toge...
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