'Sonny Rollins' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Rollins, Sonny Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Sonny Rollins Beyond the Notes

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Sonny Rollins Beyond the Notes

  2012, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen The Jazz Baroness

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - interviewed
• Play in Full Screen Sonny Rollins: Live in '65 & '68

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sonny Rollins: Live in '65 & '68

  2008, role: actor , character name: Saxophone
• Play in Full Screen Saxophone Colossus

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jim Hall: A Life in Progress

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Saxophone Colossus

  1998, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Great Day in Harlem

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Indelible Evidence

  1986, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Sonny Rollins: Live at Loren

  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Alfie

  1966, role: composer

Famous quotes by Sonny Rollins:

"highly, highly flattered by it all."

"I remember hearing that song around the house, and on the radio and everything, ... Wow, I haven't heard that record in so many years. It's one of my earliest memories of jazz. I believe in things like reincarnation, and it struck a chord someplace in my back lives or something."

"I look at all that from the inside, so you'd probably have to ask someone else."

"Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert"

"As the years went by and jazz got more popular and social conditions changed, you were able to have jazz as a topic introduced into the music curriculum in universities, ... I think that one thing that hip-hop and jazz have in common is that they are both coming out of the minority subculture and we've faced some of the same problems. They are attacked in different ways . . . but they are a minority in a majority culture, so they are unfortunately discriminated against by the larger portion of the majority community."

"Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get."

"I am always happy to be practicing. Period, ... I enjoy just playing my horn and going into the type of meditation that playing involves. It puts me mentally in a place that is always transcendent and above real life. I love playing just for myself. It's a great experience."

"That's a pretty tall order, ... I don't want to sound too grandiose or that I can represent jazz [in its entirety]. But as one of few remaining people from that period [the heyday of bebop during the '40s and '50s], I want to represent myself and the kind of musicians from that period, so that people who are new to the music can say, 'These people were good; they aren't just a bunch of old moldy figs.'"

"Global Warning."

"I'll know when I find the ultimate sound,"

"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."

"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."

"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."

"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."

"I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?"

"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."

"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."

"What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact."

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

Sonny Rollins