Saxophone Quote by Steve Lacy Download Open image “The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.” — Steve Lacy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Saxophone Unlimited
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk.… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
