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I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
Music should always be an adventure.
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.... (more Coleman Hawkins quotes)
| The Coleman Hawkins Collection: Artist Transcriptions - Tenor Sax by Coleman Hawkins | |
| The Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins (The Michigan American Music Series) by John Chilton | |
| Coleman Hawkins (Giants of jazz) by John McDonough |
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