Coleman Hawkins

Musician

1904-11-21

Quotes by Coleman Hawkins

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

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• 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.

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• If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

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