Saxophone Quotes – City of Quotes

Steve Lacy

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I feel I’m most successful when I’m playing a concert, and it doesn’t necessarily seem like I’m playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

Roscoe Mitchell

I feel I’m most successful when I’m playing a concert, and it doesn’t necessarily seem like I’m playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

Roscoe Mitchell

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I am a saxophone player.

Nick Offerman

I am a saxophone player.

Nick Offerman

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I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn’t really date the dude with the saxophone.

Luke James

I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn’t really date the dude with the saxophone.

Luke James

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My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.

Rakim

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.

Rakim

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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 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

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My dad would take me downtown, and I’d stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

Joel Grey

My dad would take me downtown, and I’d stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

Joel Grey

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The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Steve Lacy

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Steve Lacy

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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

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

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I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn’t till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.

Kamasi Washington

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn’t till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.

Kamasi Washington

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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

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

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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument – piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn’t have the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument – piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn’t have the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

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I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

Grace VanderWaal

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

Grace VanderWaal

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

Matt Dillon

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

Matt Dillon

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I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, ‘I can’t do this; this is ridiculous.’

El-P

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, ‘I can’t do this; this is ridiculous.’

El-P

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

Clarence Clemons

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

Clarence Clemons

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As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the saxophone, I knew that sound is what I wanted.

Kamasi Washington

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the saxophone, I knew that sound is what I wanted.

Kamasi Washington

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#saxophone 17

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

I feel I’m most successful when I’m playing a concert, and it doesn’t necessarily seem like I’m playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

I am a saxophone player.

I originally started playing saxophone. I started singing a little bit when I got into middle school, when I realized girls didn’t really date the dude with the saxophone.

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing two notes on the saxophone at the same time, which is impossible.

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.

My dad would take me downtown, and I’d stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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.

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn’t till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.

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.

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument – piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn’t have the time.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

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

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, ‘I can’t do this; this is ridiculous.’

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

As a musician, your instrument is almost predetermined. I had played drums, piano, clarinet, but when I heard Wayne Shorter play the saxophone, I knew that sound is what I wanted.