Cannonball Adderley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. "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

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

Cannonball Adderley

#4. 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

#5. All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#6. 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

#7. Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

Rajneesh

#8. A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

William Watson Purkey

#9. We take the responsibility for our own enlightenment. We can pray for some help, and we may get it. But the work is ours to do.

Darren Littlejohn

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

Cannonball Adderley

#11. Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.

Anodea Judith

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

Margot Wallstrom

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

Cannonball Adderley

#16. The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. Should we have stayed home and thought of here?

Elizabeth Bishop

#18. I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Chris Matakas