Quotes About Saxophones

#1. Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.

Art Pepper

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

Gerry Mulligan

#3. I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

Kacy Hill

#4. The voluptuous chords of the wedding march done in blasphemous syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the trombones and saxophones--and

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Is he about to become that man, that modern fool of a certain age, who finds himself pausing by shop windows to stare in at the saxophones or the motorbikes, or driven to find himself a mistress of his daughter's age?

Ian McEwan

#6. Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Cootie Williams

#7. Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

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

Carl Sandburg

#9. I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica.

Pete Townshend

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

Gerry Mulligan

#11. You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

Paul McCreesh

#12. Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.

Thomas Mars

#13. The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#14. Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

Gerry Mulligan

#15. Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself... Letting go doesn't have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#16. I don't believe the idea of Fate is that everything in our lives is predetermined. For me, it's those moments when, on reflection, Life seems to have intervened and given us a friendly or not-so-friendly nudge in another direction.

Thea Euryphaessa

#17. God's Word doesn't change, the message doesn't shift. It can't be compromised in any way. It's where we stand firm.

James MacDonald

#18. At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

Kevin DeYoung

#19. As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

Cate Blanchett

#20. Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

Steven Curtis Chapman