I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this… — El-P 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
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 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
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
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
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
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the… — Chris Carmack 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
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar,… — Chick Corea 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
Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of… — Flora Purim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human… — Stan Getz 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
When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
“A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
