Saxophone Quotes

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
Clarence Clemons

Christmas, Wanted, Train

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David Bowie

Dad, Him, Thought

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Charlie Parker

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
Hugh Jackman

Education, Learning, Father

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
Kesha

Pretty, Played, Nerdy

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.
John Zorn

End, Mean, Since

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.
Jennifer Garner

School, Two, Community

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
Steve Lacy

Boring, Play, Same

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
Steve Lacy

Potential, Unlimited

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
Steve Lacy

Work, Alone, Others

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.
Rob Sheffield

Today, Rock, Giving

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Play, Wanted, Few

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom

Play, Piano, Drums

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
Steve Lacy

Love, Play, Heard

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

Working, Limit, Astounding

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
Steve Lacy

Alone, Trying, Playing

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
Steve Lacy

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
Steve Lacy

Music, Interested, Machine

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
Andy Serkis

Play, Tenor, Sax

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
Van Morrison

Big, Started, Guy

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
Ornette Coleman

School, Play, Said

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
Kat Dennings

Everything, Play, Guitar

I am a saxophone player.
Nick Offerman

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
Kenny G

Music, Started, Space

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
Ornette Coleman

Time, End, Writing

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
Gerry Mulligan

Everything, Electric, Organ

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
Charlie Watts

Rest, Listen, Band

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz

Work, Wanted, Call

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars

Writing, Remember, Between

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 them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.
Evan Parker

Looking, Unique, Known

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