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To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

~David Sanborn

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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.

~David Sanborn

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

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Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

~David Sanborn

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In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

~David Sanborn

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When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

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In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

~David Sanborn

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I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

~David Sanborn

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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.

~David Sanborn

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

~David Sanborn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 30th, 1945

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