Juice Quotes by Eddie Condon

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

— Eddie Condon

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

— Eddie Condon

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

— Eddie Condon

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

— Eddie Condon

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

— Eddie Condon

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a…

— Eddie Condon

For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

— Eddie Condon

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

— Eddie Condon

This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me…

— Eddie Condon

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's…

— Eddie Condon