David Sanborn Quotes

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

I am following my dream. I've always loved music and believed in making music.

We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.

Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.

I don't remember making a decision about music. I just always knew it was what I was going to do.

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.

Music is all I've ever done.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

But when I discovered music, I knew that that's what I wanted to do in my life and I just jumped in all the way and pursued my dreams as a musician.

I decided I want to sing more because that's been my passion since I was six.

I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'