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Saxophonist Inspirational Quotes (2223)

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Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
Lionel Richie
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I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.
James McBride
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I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.
Bo Bice
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A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
Branford Marsalis
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The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.
Ornette Coleman
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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
Branford Marsalis
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God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
John Coltrane
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
Archie Shepp
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To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
Evan Parker
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There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.
Cannonball Adderley
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After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris.
Gilad Atzmon
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I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.
Van Morrison
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You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
Van Morrison
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99.9% of the information you get about Africa is wrong
Fela Kuti
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.
Ian Anderson
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Everyone must correct his own self this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.
John Zorn
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The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
Andrea Bocelli
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Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
Andrea Bocelli
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While they are kids, my children must do as I say.
Andrea Bocelli
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The world is full of many beautiful voices I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.
Andrea Bocelli
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
Andrea Bocelli
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I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
Andrea Bocelli
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