I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone. — Joel Murray Copy Share Image
I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played. — Stan Getz 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 wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith… — Charlie Watts 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
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
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
“When I’m lonely I stand in the corner and play my saxophone and feel sorry for myself. I would ask you to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I also met Charles McPherson around that time, end of high school. I was 17 and I had followed Phil around for… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines 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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
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 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
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes 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
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
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
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
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
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
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