Play Quotes by Coleman Hawkins

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

— Coleman Hawkins

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

— Coleman Hawkins

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every…

— Coleman Hawkins

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

— Coleman Hawkins

Music should always be an adventure.

— Coleman Hawkins

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

— Coleman Hawkins

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

— Coleman Hawkins

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…

— Coleman Hawkins

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

— Coleman Hawkins

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

— Coleman Hawkins