Skip to content

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

— Cannonball Adderley

Another quote →

More quotes by Cannonball Adderley

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

All Cannonball Adderley quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Cannonball Adderley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.