homini lupus’, said Plautus. ‘Man is a wolf to man.

Some people worry that prayer may lead to passivity, that we will retreat to prayer as a substitute for action. Jesus saw no contradiction between the two: he spent long hours in prayer and then long hours meeting human needs.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

There was a period which I refer to as the &#39;Golden Age of Jazz,&#39; which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

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.

Sonny Rollins

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Written By Sonny Rollins

Written By Sonny Rollins

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