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Coleman Quotes

There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave. Philip Roth
But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot - see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As if, when he was playing he was lost and hunting for the right accidental notes. Listening to him was like talking to Coleman. You were both changing direction with every sentence, sometimes in the middle, using each other as a springboard through... Michael Ondaatje
What do you do with the kid who can't read? ...Well, what he did with the kid who couldn't read was to make her his mistress. What Farley did was to make her his punching bag. What the Cuban did was to make her his whore, or one among them--so Coleman believed more often than not. Philip Roth
Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There--you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand) Haruki Murakami
I couldn't imagine anything that could have made Coleman more of a mystery to me than this unmasking. Now that I knew everything, it was as though I knew nothing Philip Roth
Gerry Mulligan quote: "When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to..."
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins. Gerry Mulligan
Stan Getz quote: "I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much."
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much. Stan Getz
I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos. Oscar Peterson
Jimmy Smith quote: "Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff..."
Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too. Jimmy Smith
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' Jimmy Carter
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers. Nolan Ryan
Lou Reed quote: "I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way..."
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. Lou Reed

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