Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living – fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment. David Sanborn Read Quote
When you’re on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you’re not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth. David Sanborn Read Quote
I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it’s not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life. David Sanborn Read Quote
I think, in a lot of ways, it’s easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues. David Sanborn Read Quote
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I’m interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don’t listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it’s in a certain category, whether it’s country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is. David Sanborn Read Quote
I didn’t try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible. David Sanborn Read Quote
If you’re playing with somebody from another idiom, you can’t react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don’t fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating. David Sanborn Read Quote
While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it’s actually – geographically and emotionally – more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town. David Sanborn Read Quote
