#saxophone

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anyone #anything #being #california #end

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that. ↗

— Chick Corea

#band #drums #enjoy #guitar #i

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#boring #boring things #difficult #interesting #interesting things

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#saxophone #you

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

#exploit #fullest #i #known #looking

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#play #sax #saxophone #tenor

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#being #between #cross #i #i remember

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

#body #challenge #especially #far #goes

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#hear #i #i can #keith #listen

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. ↗

— Stan Getz

#human #human voice #instrument #like #play