Saxophone quotes

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

#Play #Saxophone #Tenors

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

#Beer #Saxophone #Spirit

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

#Long #Saxophone #Banjos

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

#Music #Play #Saxophone

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

#Christmas #Saxophone #Electric

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

#Unique #Saxophone #Possibility

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

#Saxophone #Electric #Organs

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

#Orchestra #Saxophone #Solo

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

#Listening #Firsts #Saxophone

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.
-- Jo Jones

#Heart #Play #Saxophone

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

#Mean #House #Saxophone

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

#Double Standard #Saxophone #Instruments

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

#Saxophone

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

#Player #Bills #Saxophone

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

#Saxophone #Care #Sopranos

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

#Play #Voice #Saxophone

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.
-- Stan Getz

#Challenges #Body #Saxophone

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
-- Steve Lacy

#Saxophone #Unlimited

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

#Play #Saxophone #Dukes

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

#Saxophone

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

#Saxophone #Music Is

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

#Trying #Firsts #Saxophone

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

#Interesting #Saxophone #Machines

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

#Play #Saxophone #Wanted

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

#Saxophone #Records #Grades

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

#Hate #Real #Saxophone

The saxophone was created to mimic the human voice and I think that's why I gravitated toward the saxophone eventually. I'd loved the clarinet, but there's something about the saxophone that just grabs you.
-- Matana Roberts

#Thinking #Voice #Saxophone