Tenor Sax Quotes

#1. I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer
and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

Herbie Hancock

#2. I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Coleman Hawkins

#3. I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

Andy Serkis

#4. Inevitably, however, a dude approached us. He was white. Jazz camp was mostly white dudes. This dude was clutching a gold-embossed tenor sax case, and on his head was a fedora with two different eagle feathers in it.

Jesse Andrews

#5. I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

Sean Price

#6. Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Ned Sublette

#7. As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

Herbie Mann

#8. I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

Robert Plant

#9. Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

Bob Marley

#10. America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

Kevin McCarthy

#11. As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

Kevin Grevioux

#12. Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

Martin Lewis Perl

#13. Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.

Carolyn See

#14. As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

#15. Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

Bob Odenkirk

#16. You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Tori Amos

#17. I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

#18. Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.

Reba McEntire

#19. What you sees, is what you gets.

Jimmy Reed

#20. I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

Nick Love

#21. A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

Cannonball Adderley

#22. One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death.

Terry Pratchett