Actually Quote by Ornette Coleman

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

— Flying Lotus

When I was 8 years old, there was a showcase of all the instruments you can learn at my school. This guy was playing…

— Dennis Lloyd

[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns…

— Jon Gordon

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

— Tom Verlaine

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

— El-P

I loved playing the saxophone.

— GRiZ

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on…

— Clarence Clemons

Saxophones are awesome.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I was hearing music in my head and trying to play it on the clarinet, but it didn't match.' Then, literally the first day,…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Sean Price

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

— Jonas Blue

The only memory I have of playing the saxophone was in a school play. We put on 'Grease,' which is still one of my…

— Ed Skrein