Sax Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

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
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
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
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
Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium. — Jeff Lorber
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else — Coleman Hawkins
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
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax. — Roy Eldridge
I'm not the master of the sax, George Garzone is. — Michael Brecker
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. — Wim Wenders
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
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. — Robert Plant
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
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
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. — Boz Scaggs
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
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
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
All she wanted was sax. — Billy Joel
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

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