Adderley Quotes

#1. I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

Fanny Burney

#2. 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

#3. Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. The individual attention and care that I personally experienced and witnessed given to other players totally blew me away.

Herb Adderley

#5. "Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

Robert Glasper

#6. Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

Cannonball Adderley

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

Cannonball Adderley

#10. I've got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold. It is my one wild and precious life, after all.

Jessi Kirby

#11. So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

Wyndham Lewis

#12. Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.

Nicholson Baker

#13. Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.

Herb Adderley

#14. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, and Jimmy Cobb playing "All Blues," a moody, blues form piece in 6/8, off the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Blake Crouch

#15. 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.

Kenny G

#16. I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

Cannonball Adderley

#17. For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.

William Shakespeare

#18. Ordinary is the door for extraordinary.

Rajneesh

#19. I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.

Herb Adderley