Three Wishes
When Pannonica inquired about three wishes if given to Art Simmons he answered with his the following:
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- “Sex.”
- “Music. I can’t think of anything else but those two!Well, there really isn’t anything else but those two. What else is there?”
- “Music takes more than just music: to me it’s God! What is God? All the beauty there is in the world. All the love. God is music, and sex, too! I don’t mean sex the way Americans mean it _ not the rabbit kind. The Americans don’t understand about sex, not the way they do in France. I very soon found that out. Sex and music, and everything that is beautiful, it is all the same thing, really.And that is all that matters.”
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Three Wishes
When asked what his three wishes would be Claude Purvis responded to Nica with:
- “The first, I would try to be in a position to expose my talent to everyone, to make my music known to all.”
- “A comfortable place to live.”
- “An opportunity to help jazz. I think about myself first.”
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Three Wishes
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley told the Baroness that his three wishes were:
- “I wish that racial discrimination would be eliminated from the face of the earth, in all directions.”
- “I wish for some sort of subsidy for the jazz art, so that those truly dedicated artists may create music, let’s say unscathed or distorted because of social and economic necessity. Only under these circumstances may there exist jazz expression free from bitterness, jealousy, grief, and the put-down syndrome.”
- “I must honestly confess that I would wish for certain various and sundry circumstances indigenous to healthy and happy home life for my wife and myself.”
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Three Wishes
Kenny Dorham was asked what his three wishes were and he told Nica that he would wish for the following:
- “Money.”
- “Happiness’d take care of all that sh*t!”
- “To have the ecstasy granted to me of music.”
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Three Wishes
When Pannonica inquired what his three wishes would be Bob Cranshaw replied with these three answers:
- “That Barry Harris would go to Chicago with us for two weeks.”
- “That I might learn how to play the bass!”
- “That my family will be proud of me.”
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