I am a saxophone player.

I loved playing the saxophone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

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

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I play the saxophone, and I used to play the piano.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

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

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'

I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.

Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite an accomplishment.

The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't like vocalists, try guitar.

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.

I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

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