55 Sax Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous sax quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational sax quotes. Hopefully, these sax quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your sax knowledge!
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Short Sax Quotes
- Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. — Wim Wenders
- As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. — Boz Scaggs
- I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. — Andy Serkis
- When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band. — David Bowie
- I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else. — Coleman Hawkins
- No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. — Tommy Chong
- Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax. — Alan Greenspan
- I'm a better economist than I was a sax player. — Alan Greenspan
- I used to play tenor sax in high school, man. — Sean Price
- Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools. — Talib Kweli
People Writing About Sax
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Alan Greenspan |
134 | 836 |
 Wim Wenders |
66 | 580 |
 Boz Scaggs |
27 | 231 |
 Andy Serkis |
118 | 133 |
 David Bowie |
465 | 18186 |
 Coleman Hawkins |
9 | 52 |
More Sax Quotes
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.' — Clarence Clemons
Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl. — Neil Young
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds. — Rob Sheffield
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music. — Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue. — Yusef Komunyakaa
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. — Dick Dale
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. — David Bowie
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.' — Nick Offerman
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax. — Michael Cera
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way. — William J. Clinton
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. — Richard Price
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. — David Bowie
Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it. — David Bowie
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. — Rakim
Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it. — Colin Stetson
You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone. — Mark Ronson
I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it. — Ted Nugent
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around. — Tom Verlaine
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
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then. — Miles Teller
One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did. — Eddie Money
Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist. — Ritchie Blackmore
Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax. — Nick Hornby
All she wanted was sax. — Billy Joel
I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf. — Kenny G
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years. — Clarence Clemons
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
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. — Robert Plant
If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one. — Ryan Adams
I'm not the master of the sax, George Garzone is. — Michael Brecker
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax. — Roy Eldridge
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