quotes about Saxophone
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The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
-- Charlie ParkerSource : "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.
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I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
-- Clarence ClemonsSource : "5 Steps to Make Yourself Miserable for the Holidays" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2014.
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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 -
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it
-- Gerry Mulligan -
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra
-- Gerry Mulligan -
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When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins
-- Gerry Mulligan -
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 -
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 understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
-- Lee Konitz -
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I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.
-- Matt DillonSource : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
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Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.
-- Ray Stevens -
It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.
-- Rufus Reid -
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
-- Stan GetzSource : "Readers recommend: best saxophone songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.
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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 -
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
-- Steve Lacy -
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
-- Steve Lacy -
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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 -
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
-- Steve Lacy -
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan -
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When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
-- Tom Verlaine -
I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful.
-- Alan SparhawkSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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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