David Sanborn Quotes

Music fathoms the sky.

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

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

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

The great love of my life is music.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

My music is like my freedom space.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I have fallen back in love with music, which has allowed me to get back to my roots and create sounds without borders.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.