Music making Quote by Haruki Murakami

“Whenever the sixth tune on the flip side of the LP, “Atlanta Blues,” began, she would grab one of Tengo’s body parts and praise…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Gerry Mulligan

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

— Artie Shaw

“I love hearing your trumpet. You always make me feel renewed.”

— Yuki Kure

You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that,…

— Mark Ronson

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do…

— Christopher Guest

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

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

“I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot.”

— Jennifer Echols

I keep up to scratch on the sax.

— Fred MacMurray

“I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my…

— Pete Townshend

“Take notes, boys! The ladies always love a man who can play an instrument!” Lindsay snorted, “Your instrument doesn’t even like girls, Rusty!” “Doesn’t…

— Cora Carmack