The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy 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 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
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful. — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,… — Kat Dennings 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
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
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't… — Pete Yorn Copy Share Image
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the… — Donald Byrd 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
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. — Clarence Clemons 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
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
