Saxophone Quotes

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

— Kesha

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

— Arnold Bennett

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

— Steve Lacy

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

— Charlie Parker

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

— Steve Lacy

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

— Matt Dillon

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

— Andy Serkis

I loved playing the saxophone.

— GRiZ

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

— Stan Getz

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

— Joel Murray

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

— Jon Gordon

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

— Norman Wisdom

“Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.”

— Charlie Parker

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

— Tom Verlaine

I'm just a former saxophone player who got lucky.

— Fred MacMurray

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

— Bill Frisell

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all…

— Robert Pinsky

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I…

— Gaspard Ulliel

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I…

— Steve Lacy

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little…

— Terry Riley

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on…

— Stan Getz

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…

— Stan Getz

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band…

— Jennifer Garner

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big…

— William J. Clinton

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

I was hearing music in my head and trying to play it on the clarinet, but it didn't match.' Then, literally the…

— Kamasi Washington

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to…

— John Polson

My third day playing saxophone, I was in front of a congregation. I still didn't know the names of all the notes.…

— Kamasi Washington

I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone…

— Flying Lotus

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of…

— David Edwards

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing,…

— Ornette Coleman

[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our…

— Jon Gordon

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening…

— Miriam Makeba

His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering…

— Gunther Schuller

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…

— Anne Fadiman

I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too…

— Curtis Fuller

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…

— Virginia Woolf

Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,…

— Donald Fagen

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of…

— Jon Gordon