Saxophone Quotes · Page 6

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

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like…

— Gavin Bryars

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

— Steve Lacy

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

— Phil Woods

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

— Jon Gordon

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

— Stan Getz

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

— Jon Gordon

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 studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an…

— Jon Gordon

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'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

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

— Rokia Traore

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

— Julian Schnabel

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

— Matt Dillon

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and…

— John Zorn

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing…

— Matana Roberts

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

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

— Arnold Bennett

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 never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when…

— Donald Miller

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

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone…

— Earl Scruggs