David Sanborn Quotes

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

I came into this league when I was 20, and I didn't know if I was going to make it.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

Life doesn't retreat.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.