Saxophone Quotes · Page 4

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

I also met Charles McPherson around that time, end of high school. I was 17 and I had followed Phil around for…

— Jon Gordon

I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the…

— Jon Gordon

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

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

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

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

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

— Arnold Bennett

I'm just a former saxophone player who got lucky.

— Fred MacMurray

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

— Matt Dillon

I loved playing the saxophone.

— GRiZ

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

— 21 Jump Street

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

— Stan Getz

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

— Roscoe Mitchell

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

— Lee Konitz

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

— Julian Schnabel

Most footballers play golf for five or six hours. I'd rather play my saxophone. I get out to gigs when I can.

— Dion Dublin

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

— Gerry Mulligan

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

— Jon Gordon

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

— Steve Lacy

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little…

— Terry Riley

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

— Gaspard Ulliel

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

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

— Thomas Mars

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit…

— Steve Lacy

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music…

— Rokia Traore

I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to…

— Mac Miller

“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

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and…

— Masego

Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the…

— Kenny G

I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior…

— Jon Gordon

The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words…

— Joy Harjo

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 grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the…

— Chris Carmack

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

A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…

— Virginia Woolf

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of…

— Jon Gordon

Tim Price is one of the real ones ! A good friend and a great player !

— Phil Woods

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

— Steve Lacy