Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ries

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

Tom Verlaine

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

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.

Gerry Mulligan

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

Matt Dillon

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

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.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Edward Hopper

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

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

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.

Calvin Hill

It's the first painting I purchased in 1969 when I was a rookie.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

David Stern

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

Steve Denyes

They are still using the original notes from the symphony, but they are personalizing the arrangement and making it their own.

William Blake

The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

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.

Christy Mathewson

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.