You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business… — Paul McCreesh Copy Share Image
I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this… — El-P Copy Share Image
I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
“Technically I didn’t see him at first—I felt him, felt his music crawl along my skin. The chords and bars of his… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
I try not to talk during the day when I have a show that night. My voice is my instrument, just like… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on 'Grease,' which is still one… — Ed Skrein Copy Share Image
I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone,… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar,… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar,… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
![“I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3c7/jon-gordon-1655_art_i-was-finishing-up-at-high-school-of-per_2762115.png)
![“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.” quote by Johnny Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/83c/johnny-griffin-65875_band_my-grammar-school-graduating-class-in-19_1845972.png)
![“We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in from 11:00 in the morning to 11:00 at night. We often did a lot of varied things. It wasn't just about jazz language and the saxophone.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f5/jon-gordon-1655_fourth_we-spent-all-day-together-with-phil-wood_2211142.png)
