American - Musician | July 30, 1945 -
Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.
David Sanborn
MusicSkyYouKnowOpenOut
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.
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You're only as good as your last record.
GoodYouLastOnlyYourRecord
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
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I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.'
LiveMusicThinkGenerationBack
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.
MusicMeThinkYouRulesDrama
In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.
MeDoneLivingNeverOverYears
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
DoneListenNeverRecordsStuff
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.
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I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.
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I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.
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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.
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