120 Quotes by David Sanborn

Pop used to actually routinely sell 10 million records. Now if they get there at all it takes them quite awhile.

I didn't go on the road until right after my second album.

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

I did full demos of all the songs at home, and then I took the demos into the studio and played them for everybody, and we then went ahead and did live versions.

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

I think the problem is when a genre or style becomes limiting, when it starts to define what you're going to do, then it becomes a problem.

I think with the acoustic bass it allows you to explore the fuller dynamic range.