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.
Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.
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.
The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light—grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.
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.
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.
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
When I’m lonely I stand in the corner and play my saxophone and feel sorry for myself. I would ask you to accompany me on the piano, but if I did that I wouldn’t be lonely, would I? And what’s the point of a saxophone if not to celebrate despai...
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
I am a saxophone player.
I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
