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As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
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What would you like to be remembered for?Originally asked
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A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
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Not for a long time.
Sonny Rollins
Jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
I hope so, yes! The thing is that my spiritual leanings don’t accept what we would call life and death… We don’t believe in that. There is no end! There is no dying. We’re here forever! Even though your body turns to dust like everything else in this world, your soul is going to continue on. Even though I’m not able to perform music anymore, I’m still here as a human being, my soul will still be here when I’m gone — so every day I’m trying to be a good human being. And I guess whatever I accomplish in that sense will turn into the legacy of Sonny Rollins.
To have made people healthier and happier.
More from Omid Djalili
View profile →Vindictiveness and spite.
Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
Sending a text meant for my wife to Dara O'Briain by mistake, revealing myself to be a control freak.
Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.
To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
Still being married to Annabel.
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