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When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

— Tom Verlaine

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✓Similar Perspectives

I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.

— Desiigner

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.

— Bobby Keys

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

— Kesha

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'

— Roscoe Mitchell

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

— Rita Coolidge

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

— Wynton Marsalis

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!'

— Ornette Coleman

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

— Bebe Rexha

✗Opposing Perspectives

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

— Donald Byrd

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey