Saxophone Quotes: top 42 famous quotes about Saxophone

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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

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities. — Michael G. Williams

He slid his saxophone under the bed before we got naked on it, and I think it made the whole thing better. I really do. — Charlie Close

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

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

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

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

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you. — Charlie Parker

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

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

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

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. — Andy Serkis

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy. — Kesha

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

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

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

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. — Aberjhani

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

I am a saxophone player. — Nick Offerman

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

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

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited. — Steve Lacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ... — Pete Yorn

And, man he cried when he talked. He cried big tears, the kind it takes an old man to cry, the kind it takes a saxophone to play. — Robert James Waller

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

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

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

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

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

Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby — Rob Sheffield

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! — Dev Hynes

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz

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

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone. — Joel Murray

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer. — Arnold Bennett

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. — Rokia Traore