Saxophone Quotes

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

— Kesha

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 play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

— Andy Serkis

I am a saxophone player.

— Nick Offerman

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

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

— Tom Verlaine

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

— Charlie Parker

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

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

— Bill Frisell

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

— Nicki Minaj

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

— Robert Pinsky

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

— Stan Getz

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

— Bill Frisell

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

— Jennifer Garner

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

— Dev Hynes

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

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

— John Polson

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

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 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

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

— Gunther Schuller

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

— Jon Gordon

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

— Anne Fadiman

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

— Donald Fagen

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

— Sage Steadman

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

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

— Gerard Cox

My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I…

— Bill Crow

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

— Clarence Clemons

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

— Kin Hubbard