Quotes by Kenny G - Page 1

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Parenting
Boys
Ideals
Parenthood
Boy
Ideal
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I really create everything I do from the heart.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
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I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Golf
Great Things
Playing Golf
Great Thing
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I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Follow Your Heart
Heart
My Heart
Responsive
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I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Classical Music
Jazz
Classical
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I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Bad Vibes
I've Learned
Vibes
Simply
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It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Felt
Voice
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Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Student
Finally
Longer
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The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Albums
Moments
Album
Contains
Produced
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I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Approach
Feels
Feels Right
Way
Life My Life Way
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I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Clubs
Club
Supposed
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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Adults
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Jazz
Nice
Smooth
Smooth Jazz
Surprise
Whole
Adult
Rise
Music New Jazz
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If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Disappointed
Glasses
Mistake
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There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Country
Listening
Reason
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When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Audience
Feels
Play
Time Feel Live
Follow
Lead
Same Time
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Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Mean
Play
Records
Song
Technique
Great Better People
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I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Fine
Jazz
Mean
Thinking
Word
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Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Cd
Cover
Perry
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Square
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It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Artist
Important
Should
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Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Big Deal
Fit
Jazz
Thinking
Category
Deal
Figure
No Big Deal
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Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Anything Is Possible
I've Learned
Seems
Biggest
Work Anything Is Possible Anything
Biggest Thing
Possible
Learned
Maybe
Musically
Seem
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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Indian
Indian Music
Complex
Generally
Melodies
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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Guy
Music Business
Ordinary
Song
Thinking
Business Good Music
Good Song
Just As Much
Ordinary Guy
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The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Challenges
Feelings
Simple
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I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Hours
Practice
Scales
Serious
Tone
Work Fun Day
Have Fun
Otherwise
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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 / Saxophonist
Feels
Golf
Technique
Express
Sax
Well Enough
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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Communication
Communicate
Play
Thinking
Hope Music People
Anyway
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I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Inspirational
Music
Practice
Years
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I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Fusion
Gigs
Joining
Seattle
Touring
Jeff
Prior
Studio
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I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Appreciative
High School
Performing
Shocked
Music Always People
Music People School
React
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Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Emotion
Musical
People
Religious
Hope Great People
Album
Instrumental
Melodies
Purely
Statement
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Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
College
Coltrane
Influence
Jazz
Masters
Washington
John
Main
Sonny
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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 / Saxophonist
Body
Feels
Golf
Technique
Played
Express
Learned
Sax
Well Enough
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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
College
Coltrane
Influence
Jazz
Listening
Masters
Washington
John
Main
Sonny
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I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Communication
Communicate
Hope Music Me
Anyway
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I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Accolades
Approval
Life Music Me
Seek
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Kids
Band
Friday
Lessons
Normal
Program
Public School
School
Special
Public
Instrumental
Taking
Took
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I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Music
Space
Anticipate
Letting Go
Notes
Realizing
Saxophone
Thinking
Space Music Always
Ahead
Area
Played
Goes
Let Go
Mouth
One Area
Where
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I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Albums
Ego
Messages
Negative
Rap
Sincere
Song
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I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Increase
Notoriety
Perception
Play
Popularity
Real
Simple
Criticized
Personally
Real Problem
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Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Communication
Communicate
Love Hope Music
Anyway
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You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
People
Records
Talking
Truth Is
Waste
Sell
Love Truth Time
Waste Of Time
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Amazed
Convinced
Department
Hearing
Promotion
Radio
Time Music Believe
Actually
Record
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
Charlie
Fine
Jazz
Offended
Offended You
Play
Song
Traditional
Me People Jazz
Create
Improvise
Instrument
Word
Parker
Sense
Traditional Sense
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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 / Saxophonist
Musician
Different Way
Entire
Entire Life
Influences
Sax
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