David Sanborn Quotes

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

You know, I love the South.