Cannonball Adderley Quotes

• 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, Important, Entertainment

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• Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Mind, Facts

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

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  African American, Musician, Way

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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 Adderley

  Past, Trying, Jazz

  Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.

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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!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Music, Player, Men

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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 Adderley

  Dukes, Jazz, Philosopher

  Interview by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.

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