Sax Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm…
— David Bowie
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I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must…
— Clarence Clemons
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the…
— Clarence Clemons
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I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.
— Phillip Phillips
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Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.
— Jeff Lorber
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I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else
— Coleman Hawkins
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A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous!…
— Cannonball Adderley
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I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.
— Roy Eldridge
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I'm not the master of the sax, George Garzone is.
— Michael Brecker
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Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
— Wim Wenders
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If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made…
— Ryan Adams
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
— Robert Plant
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Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.
— Ned Sublette
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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the…
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.
— Boz Scaggs
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Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of…
— Clarence Clemons
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I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just…
— Kenny G
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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All she wanted was sax.
— Billy Joel
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The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get…
— Jeffrey Osborne
Who Wrote These Sax Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Sax Quotes, led by these top contributors: