Band Quote by David Bowie

Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my…

— David Bowie

[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns…

— Jon Gordon

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year…

— Earl Scruggs

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

— Robert Plant

I'm just a former saxophone player who got lucky.

— Fred MacMurray

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

— Jay London

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

— Flying Lotus

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

— Clarence Clemons

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up…

— Ornette Coleman

I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.

— Jon Gordon

I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone players in…

— Flying Lotus

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some…

— Clarence Clemons