Negro Quote by Melinda Haynes

“Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.”

— Charlie Parker

“Music leaks out of the Walkman, and a saxophone from long ago circles in the air, so sad it could barely leave the ground.”

— David Mitchell

“That’s the trouble these days, too much Sax and Violins in the theatre.”

— Tony Rattigan

“We permit a new future to enter the room with these startling encounters. A young boy from Austin, Texas, Charles Black Jr., stood and…

— Sarah Lewis

“And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter”

— Annette Johnson

“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

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing…

— Rakim

I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming, holding his…

— Ian Gillan

“When I’m lonely I stand in the corner and play my saxophone and feel sorry for myself. I would ask you to accompany me…

— Jarod Kintz

That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!

— Christopher Miller

“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing. Music filling the brownstone. Black fingers pulling violin bows and strumming cellos, dark lips around horns,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Technically I didn’t see him at first—I felt him, felt his music crawl along my skin. The chords and bars of his saxophone sent…

— Brittainy C. Cherry