The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone. — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing,… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy… — Gilad Atzmon Copy Share Image
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just something that's always been around. I play saxophone… — Charlie Rowe Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
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
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
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
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 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
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz 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
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
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
Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell… — Bobby Keys 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
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.' — Ray Stevens 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
When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
