In response to some favorable criticism by the French jazz critic Hugues Panassie:

I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how to jump on a grape.


As reported in: Jazz Anecdotes (1990), Bill Crow

Eddie Condon Quotes

I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how ...

I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how ...

I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how ...

I don't see why we need a Frenchman to come over here and tell us how to play American music. I wouldn't think of going to France and telling him how ...