From The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, ed. Sam V.H. Reese (New York Review Books, 2024). Four separate entries, widely separated in time:
Persevere I shall.Related reading
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
— a wise man on living life.
One day in the future people will be saying, “Yes, I once saw Sonny Rollins.”
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
All OCA Sonny Rollins posts (Pinboard)
[This volume might be of limited interest to a non-saxophonist: many, many entries are devoted to practice routines, scales, breathing, fingerings, and embouchure. If nothing else, those entries give a non-saxophonist an idea of how much work goes into producing a sound. Yet another example of why “close enough for jazz” is uninformed nonsense.]
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