David Sanborn

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest. ”

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. ”

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. ”

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth. ”

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. ”

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing. ”

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process. ”

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. ”

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

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment. ”