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. David Sanborn
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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