Coleman Hawkins famous quotes

04-17-2025

Music should always be an adventure.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Music #Adventure #Should
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Cat #Men #Thinking
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Business #Mistake #Making Mistakes
You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Music #Men #Boys
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Music #Play #Made
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Play #Style #Honestly
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Thinking #People #Way
If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Trying
I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Thinking #Play #Modern
Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#People #Jam #Want
There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.
-- Coleman Hawkins

#Progress #Bops

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