Ballads Quote by Miles Davis

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to…

— Norah Jones

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him…

— Cannonball Adderley

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…

— Oscar Peterson

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

— Ned Sublette

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

— Gerry Mulligan

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

— Stan Getz

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising…

— Herbie Mann

“Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He…

— Haruki Murakami

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America.…

— Miles Davis

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

— Miles Davis

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

— Jessica Sanchez

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had…

— Joe Perry