Cannonball Adderley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.
-- Cannonball Adderley

#Way #Hips
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!
-- Cannonball Adderley

#Music #Mind #Facts
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
-- Cannonball Adderley

#Player #Men #Years
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
-- Cannonball Adderley

#Past #Trying #Jazz
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
-- Cannonball Adderley

#Dukes #Jazz #Philosopher
Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.
-- Cannonball Adderley

#Understanding #Important #Entertainment

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
I need to get back to work,â€ Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. â€œKiller skirt. Deadly legs.
Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat.

Cannonball Adderley famous quotes

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