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. -Sonny Rollins

 

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.


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?




This quote is just one of 6 total Sonny Rollins quotes in our collection. Sonny Rollins is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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.

Sonny Rollins

Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert.

Sonny Rollins

Highly, highly flattered by it all.

Sonny Rollins

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

Sonny Rollins