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I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values. - David Sanborn Quotes

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Usually there's some kind of clue, whether it's a rhythmic foundation or sometimes its very abstract - just an emotional kind of landscape - and then you just kind of start someplace. - David Sanborn Quotes

Usually there's some kind of clue, whether it's a rhythmic foundation or sometimes its very abstract - just an emotional kind of landscape - and then you just kind of start someplace.

I'm somebody that pretty much operates by instinct, and I kind of have to follow my instincts. - David Sanborn Quotes

I'm somebody that pretty much operates by instinct, and I kind of have to follow my instincts.

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. - David Sanborn Quotes

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.

American Musician

I know guys that live in New York, but I never see them play because they're always out on the road. I run into them in Europe. - David Sanborn Quotes

I know guys that live in New York, but I never see them play because they're always out on the road. I run into them in Europe.

Pop used to actually routinely sell 10 million records. Now if they get there at all it takes them quite awhile. - David Sanborn Quotes

Pop used to actually routinely sell 10 million records. Now if they get there at all it takes them quite awhile.

I think as different songs kind of cross your path from one source or another, I approach them with the idea of, can I get inside this song and really kind of inhabit it and bring something of myself into that song? - David Sanborn Quotes

I think as different songs kind of cross your path from one source or another, I approach them with the idea of, can I get inside this song and really kind of inhabit it and bring something of myself into that song?

The music is going to change anyway, whether or not the record companies get behind it or not. The music is there, and it's happening, and it's going on out there. - David Sanborn Quotes

The music is going to change anyway, whether or not the record companies get behind it or not. The music is there, and it's happening, and it's going on out there.

I think Norah Jones is a perfect example. Here's somebody who was playing the music she wanted to play and did it with some conviction, and it happened to be at a moment in time when there was a highly receptive audience for that kind of music. - David Sanborn Quotes

I think Norah Jones is a perfect example. Here's somebody who was playing the music she wanted to play and did it with some conviction, and it happened to be at a moment in time when there was a highly receptive audience for that kind of music.

I started out, obviously, as a sideman, and I had some really good gigs as a sideman. - David Sanborn Quotes

I started out, obviously, as a sideman, and I had some really good gigs as a sideman.

People who really understood the use of space and the fact that the sound and the silence are of equal weight and that what you're doing is really manipulating space. It's the same as a painting except that you're doing it aurally. - David Sanborn Quotes

People who really understood the use of space and the fact that the sound and the silence are of equal weight and that what you're doing is really manipulating space. It's the same as a painting except that you're doing it aurally.

You're only as good as your last record. - David Sanborn Quotes

You're only as good as your last record.

American Musician

There are some logistical and legal nightmares tied to that show, ... for me, the great thrill of doing that show was playing with people I've been a fan of. - David Sanborn Quotes

There are some logistical and legal nightmares tied to that show, ... for me, the great thrill of doing that show was playing with people I've been a fan of.

Legal

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence. - David Sanborn Quotes

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Well, I did all the pre-production and I did full demos of all the songs and then I took it into the studio and played it for all the guys and then we kind of took that as the template and did the album live very quickly. - David Sanborn Quotes

Well, I did all the pre-production and I did full demos of all the songs and then I took it into the studio and played it for all the guys and then we kind of took that as the template and did the album live very quickly.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. - David Sanborn Quotes

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

American Musician Media

While I believe my background makes me one of the most qualified people there is for this position, the convergence of a number of factors bring me to the conclusion that I cannot effectively serve my country, you, and the U.S. maritime industry. - David Sanborn Quotes

While I believe my background makes me one of the most qualified people there is for this position, the convergence of a number of factors bring me to the conclusion that I cannot effectively serve my country, you, and the U.S. maritime industry.

I remember one summer, right after my second album came out, James Taylor was nice enough to allow us to open for him. - David Sanborn Quotes

I remember one summer, right after my second album came out, James Taylor was nice enough to allow us to open for him.

Well I think that one of the things that I've learned over the years - some of it by experience and growth, and some of it just by the gradual physical falling away at certain things - that its really important to try to make less mean more. - David Sanborn Quotes

Well I think that one of the things that I've learned over the years - some of it by experience and growth, and some of it just by the gradual physical falling away at certain things - that its really important to try to make less mean more.

So I get it worked out beforehand so I can be really efficient in the studio. - David Sanborn Quotes

So I get it worked out beforehand so I can be really efficient in the studio.

No, it's unfair to the musicians and the people that work for the record labels, because they're scrambling to make their numbers every month or three months, or they're out of a job. - David Sanborn Quotes

No, it's unfair to the musicians and the people that work for the record labels, because they're scrambling to make their numbers every month or three months, or they're out of a job.

I did full demos of all the songs at home, and then I took the demos into the studio and played them for everybody, and we then went ahead and did live versions. - David Sanborn Quotes

I did full demos of all the songs at home, and then I took the demos into the studio and played them for everybody, and we then went ahead and did live versions.

Home

But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented. - David Sanborn Quotes

But certainly the idea of making records that had a mainstream appeal instrumentally was nothing that we invented.

Mostly because I don't really feel that I have a methodology. - David Sanborn Quotes

Mostly because I don't really feel that I have a methodology.

My manager and I had been talking about trying to do a TV show. There was a series of shows back in the '50s, where they'd get a bunch of musicians together and they'd jam. - David Sanborn Quotes

My manager and I had been talking about trying to do a TV show. There was a series of shows back in the '50s, where they'd get a bunch of musicians together and they'd jam.

To me, a record needs to have a focus. It needs to have a core. - David Sanborn Quotes

To me, a record needs to have a focus. It needs to have a core.

Focus

You might have a slight edge in terms of leverage if you've had some past success, but I don't think that really goes very far. - David Sanborn Quotes

You might have a slight edge in terms of leverage if you've had some past success, but I don't think that really goes very far.

Past

We're living in an age now where that's the business model. And it's kind of hard to operate economically in that kind of climate because it stifles creativity. - David Sanborn Quotes

We're living in an age now where that's the business model. And it's kind of hard to operate economically in that kind of climate because it stifles creativity.

My whole contention, and my feeling in general about radio is, not just jazz radio, or smooth jazz radio, or whatever-radio in general is, I would like to see a little more variety within each one station. - David Sanborn Quotes

My whole contention, and my feeling in general about radio is, not just jazz radio, or smooth jazz radio, or whatever-radio in general is, I would like to see a little more variety within each one station.

Jazz

I think with the acoustic bass it allows you to explore the fuller dynamic range. - David Sanborn Quotes

I think with the acoustic bass it allows you to explore the fuller dynamic range.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens. - David Sanborn Quotes

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

And I think that in the case of these last few - the musicians I had - the reasons I used the same people I did on the two albums was I really felt that these guys were not only great players in their own right but really understood the concept of functioning as a band. - David Sanborn Quotes

And I think that in the case of these last few - the musicians I had - the reasons I used the same people I did on the two albums was I really felt that these guys were not only great players in their own right but really understood the concept of functioning as a band.

I listen to some things that I've done, and I think they're pretty good, but that's not one of them. - David Sanborn Quotes

I listen to some things that I've done, and I think they're pretty good, but that's not one of them.

I'd been doing a syndicated radio show. - David Sanborn Quotes

I'd been doing a syndicated radio show.

Radio

I was playing with James Taylor at the time. James agreed to let me open for him, if I played with him also. So I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way. - David Sanborn Quotes

I was playing with James Taylor at the time. James agreed to let me open for him, if I played with him also. So I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way.

I was playing with James Taylor at the time. James agreed to let me open for him, if I played with him also. So I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way. - David Sanborn Quotes

I was playing with James Taylor at the time. James agreed to let me open for him, if I played with him also. So I got to be the opening act and I got a lot of exposure that way.

And record companies are always quick to blame piracy and the Internet but I think that's only a small part of it. I think it's the corporate bottom line mentality. - David Sanborn Quotes

And record companies are always quick to blame piracy and the Internet but I think that's only a small part of it. I think it's the corporate bottom line mentality.

But hey, look, I became a musician because I love music. - David Sanborn Quotes

But hey, look, I became a musician because I love music.

Love

I love working with these guys. But I certainly don't begrudge them when they want to go off and do their own stuff. - David Sanborn Quotes

I love working with these guys. But I certainly don't begrudge them when they want to go off and do their own stuff.

Love

The problem often times with trying to recreate some moment is that you kind of try to do part two or a sequel. - David Sanborn Quotes

The problem often times with trying to recreate some moment is that you kind of try to do part two or a sequel.

Well, I had been doing albums that were a little more pop/commercial and it was really only reflecting one side of my playing and I felt the need to express another side of myself. - David Sanborn Quotes

Well, I had been doing albums that were a little more pop/commercial and it was really only reflecting one side of my playing and I felt the need to express another side of myself.

The audience is interested in different stuff, not the same old, same old. - David Sanborn Quotes

The audience is interested in different stuff, not the same old, same old.

I'm just saying that the basic concept of creative freedom and growth creatively is a continuous process. - David Sanborn Quotes

I'm just saying that the basic concept of creative freedom and growth creatively is a continuous process.

I sat in with them, and I remember their jaws dropped. I could actually play. I had some degree of sense of time. - David Sanborn Quotes

I sat in with them, and I remember their jaws dropped. I could actually play. I had some degree of sense of time.

Well, I really enjoyed the process of making the last album so much that it's like kind of not wanting the party to end in a way. - David Sanborn Quotes

Well, I really enjoyed the process of making the last album so much that it's like kind of not wanting the party to end in a way.

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected. - David Sanborn Quotes

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

My recollection of listening to radio was listening to a personality on the radio play music that he was connected with, and having a wide variety of music to play. - David Sanborn Quotes

My recollection of listening to radio was listening to a personality on the radio play music that he was connected with, and having a wide variety of music to play.

I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together. - David Sanborn Quotes

I'm one of those people that wants to bring a lot of disparate elements together.

Well, if I'm really playing, I'm hopefully not thinking. - David Sanborn Quotes

Well, if I'm really playing, I'm hopefully not thinking.

I'm trying to kind of keep my mind a blank for a while, and just see what filters in, and be non-specific about what I listen to. - David Sanborn Quotes

I'm trying to kind of keep my mind a blank for a while, and just see what filters in, and be non-specific about what I listen to.

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