Band Quote by Jon Gordon

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Flying Lotus

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned…

— Chad Smith

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

— Sean Price

I really first got interested in music on a little bit of a deeper level maybe around sixth or seventh grade. I joined the…

— Justin Tucker

I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn't really date…

— Luke James

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

— Tommy Lee

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 was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

— Dan Fogelberg

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

— Tom Verlaine

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I…

— Ornette Coleman

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

— David Bowie