Saxophone Quotes · Page 2

I am a saxophone player.

— Nick Offerman

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful.

— Alan Sparhawk

Bitch won't blow, but she can blow my saxophone.

— Nicki Minaj

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

— Gerry Mulligan

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

— Kin Hubbard

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

— Clarence Clemons

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.

— Justin Gatlin

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

— Roscoe Mitchell

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,…

— Anonymous

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening…

— Josephine de La Baume

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

— Clarence Clemons

I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to…

— Gerry Mulligan

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and…

— Stan Getz

...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I…

— Jimmy Lyons

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

— Dev Hynes

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this…

— Clarence Clemons

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow…

— Pete Townshend

After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy…

— Gilad Atzmon

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…

— David Sanborn

So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them…

— Evan Parker

I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just something that's always been around. I play saxophone…

— Charlie Rowe

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

— Gaspard Ulliel

Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture -…

— Thomas Mars

And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the…

— Sage Steadman

Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts…

— Wendy Starland

Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and…

— Jimmy Heath

I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a…

— Gerard Cox

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of…

— Flora Purim

When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real…

— Stan Getz

I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.

— Jon Gordon

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

— Gerry Mulligan

Is it just me who finds the sound of a saxophone sexual...

— Anonymous

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

— Miles Teller

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

— Steve Lacy

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

— Steve Lacy

You played saxophone at my sister's wedding, man! -Domingo

— 21 Jump Street