End Quote by Engelbert Humperdinck

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

— Robert Plant

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

— Eddie Money

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

— Roy Eldridge

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

— Coleman Hawkins

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

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of…

— David Bowie

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

— Charlie Parker

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

— Steve Lacy

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

— Sean Price

The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet,…

— Matana Roberts

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

— Gerry Mulligan

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I…

— Bobby Keys