But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.
Sonny RollinsRead
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
Interpretation
Jazz music is versatile, embracing a variety of influences while maintaining its core identity.
Sonny Rollins highlights the unique adaptability of jazz music, suggesting that this genre uniquely incorporates diverse musical elements without losing its essence. This reflects the broader idea that true art can evolve and integrate new influences while remaining authentic to its original form.
In practice
During a speech at a music festival, one might say, 'As Sonny Rollins famously stated, jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.'
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
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