Eddie Condon Quotes
- For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
- Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
- 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 still…
- Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
- Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
- 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 why…
- As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?
- They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
- Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl…
- Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.