Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all… — David Sanborn Copy Share
In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to… — David Sanborn Copy Share
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest. — David Sanborn Copy Share
While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share
I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test… — David Sanborn Copy Share
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I know what… — David Sanborn Copy Share
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or… — David Sanborn Copy Share
I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your… — David Sanborn Copy Share
All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others,… — David Sanborn Copy Share
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what? — David Sanborn Copy Share
I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all… — David Sanborn Copy Share
I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a… — David Sanborn Copy Share
I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle. — David Sanborn Copy Share
