David Sanborn Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.”

“I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.”

“When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.”

“I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.”

“I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.”

“I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.”

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.'”

“In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.”

“All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.”

“I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.”