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The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves. -- Eleanor Catton
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. -- Andy Serkis
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. -- Robert Plant
No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. -- Tommy Chong
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else. -- Coleman Hawkins
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. -- Boz Scaggs
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. -- Phillip Phillips
When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher. -- Joy Harjo
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
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
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it. -- Trevor Donovan
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
My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too. -- Mac DeMarco
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 take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock. -- Clarence Clemons
I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that. -- Coolio
Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician. -- Kenny G
The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson. -- Jeffrey Osborne
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
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
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums. -- Earl Scruggs
Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for. -- Phillip Phillips
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
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
All she wanted was sax. -- Billy Joel
I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax. -- Roy Eldridge
I used to play tenor sax in high school, man. -- Sean Price
I'm a better economist than I was a sax player. -- Alan Greenspan
I'm not the master of the sax, George Garzone is. -- Michael Brecker
Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium. -- Jeff Lorber
Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax. -- Alan Greenspan
Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools. -- Talib Kweli
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else -- Coleman Hawkins
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins. -- Wim Wenders
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band. -- 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
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
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 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
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

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