Quotes About Coleman Hawkins

#1. I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Oscar Peterson

#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. I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Stan Getz

#4. Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Ned Sublette

#5. As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

Herbie Mann

#6. When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

Gerry Mulligan

#7. When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

Miles Davis

#8. We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.

John Green

#9. I always felt like we were here to do a job, so you should be out there practicing and playing.

Logan Mankins

#10. The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.

Charles Barkley

#11. 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

#12. Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

Lucas Neff

#13. I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

Coleman Hawkins

#14. Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.

John Piper

#15. There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Coleman Hawkins

#16. If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Coleman Hawkins

#17. If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

Coleman Hawkins

#18. Music should always be an adventure.

Coleman Hawkins

#19. New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Andrei Codrescu

#20. 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

#21. I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

William, Saroyan

#22. If a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.

Katherine Hannigan

#23. My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.

Brandon T. Jackson

#24. If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.

Sherry Argov

#25. I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

#26. I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Coleman Hawkins

#27. You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Coleman Hawkins

#28. If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

Glenn Hoddle