Sonny Rollins Quotes

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.

Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

My only passion is music.

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.

Music is the first thing I didn't give up.

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

My life revolves around music.

There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.