Sonny Quotes

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.