Three Wishes

Nica asked Khalil if given what would his three wishes be and he told her to his would be:

    1. “To live longer.”
    2. “And learn more.”
    3. “Let me see. I can’t put it into words, what I want. I know what it is, but I can’t put it into words.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

Sonny Stitt replied to the inquiry made by Nica as to his three wishes:

    1. “Peace among men.”
    2. “To play my music, and please everyone.”
    3. “And I want happiness. And nothing bad to happen to anyone – that’s my fourth and dearest wish.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

Duke Jordan was asked by the Baroness, if given three wishes, what he would he wish for and he told her: 

    1. “I want to master my instrument.”
    2. “I’d like the world to be happy.”
    3. “I’d like to, some kind of how, come into some money and be happy with it.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

When Pannonica inquired about three wishes if given to Art Simmons he answered with his the following: 

    1. “Sex.”
    2. “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?”
    3. “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.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

When asked what his three wishes would be Claude Purvis responded to Nica with: 

  1. “The first, I would try to be in a position to expose my talent to everyone, to make my music known to all.”
  2. “A comfortable place to live.”
  3. “An opportunity to help jazz. I think about myself first.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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