Saxophone Quotes

Saxophone Quote of the day

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

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

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

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

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.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

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

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

I am a saxophone player.

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

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

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

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

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

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

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

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

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

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.

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.

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.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

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.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

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. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful.