ERIC DOLPHY
“At home in California I used to play, and the birds always used to whistle with me. I would stop what I was working on and play with the birds.”
I play the music of the universe. If humans should one day hear the sounds of cosmic beings from different worlds, their music will sound familiar, because they will have heard Sun Ra on earth.
(Sun Ra)
I almost skipped my high school graduation, because Sonny Rollins was playing a few hours away, and who knew when I'd get that chance again? It's something how much longer the Colossus lasted, that's already an old regret.
@melnickjeffrey1 And I'm trying to remember where I saw the one about how he wasn't much for the Stones, and a song came on in the supermarket one day, and he thought "meh, but that saxophone player's got something," before remembering it was him.