120 Quotes by David Sanborn

I do this because I love it, and at the end of the day, the fact that I can make a living at all doing this, I'm grateful for.

I don't see any way out of that because I think the audience as a whole is not being served and isn't getting excited about going out an buying CD's, and for that matter, going out and going to concerts.

I basically played the music that I felt all my life, and whatever label people put on it is kind of really none of my business.

You’re only as good as your last record.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that’s a lifelong quest.

In most of the stuff that I’ve done over the years as a sideman, I wasn’t really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That’s the process.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you’re always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

I think that that’s the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It’s by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.