Three Wishes

What Johnny Mathis responded to the question posed by Baroness Pannonica was one word answers as to his three wishes: 

1. 1. “Love.”

   2. “Kindness.”

   3. “Tactfulness.

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

Carl Pruitt had three simple answer to the question of three wishes posed by Pannonica: 

1. 1. “Health.”

   2. “Wealth.”

   3. “Power.

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

When the ladies took a moment for themselves, Nica inquired of Alice Coltrane what her three wishes would be if they were able to be given and she told her: 

1. 1. “I’d like to see my little daughter graduate from the University in Paris.”

   2. “I would dig an artist’s colony. Like one block of buildings, or area, where artists and musicians could get together, and teach, and study. Artists could display their art. Writers ~ we’d allow them in, too, but it’d be mostly artists and musicians. We’d have a library, concerts, and sessions, and rooms for tapings. Artists could come in and record. You know, you’ve got it!”

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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Three Wishes

The Baroness asked Larry Adler, if three wishes were grantable, what would they be and he replied this:

1. 1. “I don’t know there is anything I want that badly. I live very much in the present and so my wishes are pretty damn well gratified. I’d like to write a show. Because all I’ve written so far are film scores, and you can’t tell by them if you’re a good composer or not. Even though one of my film scores got an Academy Award ~ my first film score, in fact! But you only really know when you write a show, and the music carries the show, and has an independent life outside the show. Gershwin is a good example of that..””And help a chick. You know: We have a common understanding.”

   2. “I’d like to be the best father it’s possible to be.”
   3. “I’d like to be emotionally where I am chronologically. Chronologically, I’m forty-eight. Emotionally, I’m nineteen ~ if I am nineteen!”

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Three Wishes

Harold Vick was asked what his three wishes would be and he told Pannonica this:

1. 1. “To be able to play my instrument.”

   2. “Some money.”

   3. “And help a chick. You know: We have a common understanding!”

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