Cannonball Adderley quotes
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“You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.”
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“Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!”
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“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!”
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“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 AdderleySource : Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.
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“I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.”
-- Cannonball AdderleySource : Interview by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.
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“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 Quotes #Important Quotes #Entertainment Quotes
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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