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Coleman Hawkins [1904-1969] American
Rank: 101
Musician, Saxophonist


Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed Hawk and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. 


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If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
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I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
102
Music should always be an adventure.
103
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.
104
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
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