Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ries

With the Stones, it's not like you're a side saxophone player,

Matt Dillon

I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

Gerry Mulligan

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

Kesha

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

Julian Schnabel

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

Steve Lacy

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Steve Lacy

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Steve Lacy

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Tom Verlaine

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

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,

AJ Punjabi

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