Eddie Condon Quotes

• They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Jazz, Drink

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• Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Girl, Sound

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• For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

  Eddie Condon

  Hangover, Two, Juice

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• Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

  Eddie Condon

  Jazz, Said, Cases

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• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Glasses, Broken

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• Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

  Eddie Condon

  Jazz, Bourbon

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• [Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

  Eddie Condon

  Song, Play, Down And

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• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  Eddie Condon

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

  Eddie Condon

  Sound, Female, Jazz

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• Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

  Eddie Condon

  Guy, Jazz, Ends

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