Approach Quote by David Sanborn

“I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.” quote by David Sanborn — Download Open image

“I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.”

David Sanborn

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Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

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I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

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I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or…

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All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others,…

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Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

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Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

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