Coleman Hawkins Quotes

"I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play."
- Coleman Hawkins
(Related: Play, Style, Words)

"I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else."
- Coleman Hawkins
(Related: Play)

"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
(Related: People, Jazz)

"Music should always be an adventure."
- Coleman Hawkins
(Related: Music, Adventure)