Coleman Hawkins Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Coleman Hawkins:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/coleman-hawkins-quotes/#b44bc0f8

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
~Coleman Hawkins


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/coleman-hawkins-quotes/#b0a56e7c

Music should always be an adventure.
~Coleman Hawkins


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/coleman-hawkins-quotes/#91048bf1

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/coleman-hawkins-quotes/#5cae0136

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/coleman-hawkins-quotes/#2d1fdfa8

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