Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Cannonball Adderley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Cannonball Adderley.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

American - Musician | September 15, 1928 - August 8, 1975

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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

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

Cannonball Adderley

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

Cannonball Adderley

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

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

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

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Cannonball Adderley

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