22 Quotes by Coleman Hawkins

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

Music should always be an adventure.

If you don’t make mistakes you are not really trying.

I made the tenor sax – there’s nobody plays like me and I don’t play like anybody else.

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 think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

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

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

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

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.