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
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
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 thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play… — Jon Gordon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“When I’m lonely I stand in the corner and play my saxophone and feel sorry for myself. I would ask you to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
Ab-Souls Outro' serves as a jazzy, spoken summation of 'Section.80's themes. Guest cohort Ab-Soul opens the song with one urgent verse after… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I also met Charles McPherson around that time, end of high school. I was 17 and I had followed Phil around for… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When I started saxophone, my dad took me to my uncle's church, and I started playing there, too. At its best, music… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
![“I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3bb/jon-gordon-1655_competition_i-was-on-thelonious-monk-international-s_843648.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/83c/johnny-griffin-65875_band_my-grammar-school-graduating-class-in-19_1845972.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/5f5/jon-gordon-1655_fourth_we-spent-all-day-together-with-phil-wood_2211142.jpg)
