American - Musician | July 30, 1945 -
Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
David Sanborn
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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.
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It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.
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In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.
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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.
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Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.
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Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
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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.
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Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
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I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
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When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.
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