David Sanborn Quotes

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

All my songs are where I am.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

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.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.