When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.