Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks. — Stevie Ray Vaughan 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 practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to… — 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
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
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
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 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
“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 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 play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to… — Mac Miller 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
Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too… — Curtis Fuller Copy Share Image
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening… — Miriam Makeba 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 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/i/3bb/jon-gordon-1655_competition_i-was-on-thelonious-monk-international-s_843648.png)
![“I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/jon-gordon-1655_able_i-was-able-to-go-over-saxophone-competit_3208464.png)
![“[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/jon-gordon-1655_art_larry-laurenzano-gave-me-a-junior-high-s_1950287.png)
