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While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Actually Emotionally Louis Mean Mississippi More Much Part Really Regarded Sensibility South Southern St. Louis Technically Very While

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I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

~David Sanborn

Topics: About About A Year Actually After Another Down Earliest Earliest Memories Iron Just Kid Listening Lung Lying Memories Neck Radio Some Spent Then Time Year

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If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Another Closer Communicating Fall Find Habits Idiom New New Way Playing React Same Somebody Them Way You Your

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All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Been Believed Commercially In The Past Made More Music Others Past Some Successful Than Think I Think

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I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Accordingly Audience Hoped Liked Made Make Many Music People Possible Then Think Try Wanted

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Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Know Like Music Open Out Sky You

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It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Because Concentration Ego Focus Just Musician Reads Really Relationship Sometimes Tough

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When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Again Always Chance Comfortable Develop Everybody Faces Familiar Free Get Going Knows Material More More People Music Musicians Nice People Play Same See Shorthand Start Surprises Then Where You

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It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Always Be True Blues Boundaries Could Define Definition Different Difficult Elements Every Harmonic Jazz Level Lot Me Melodic Music Musician Only Played Pushing Rhythm Same Same Time Think Time True Well Where You I Can

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I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Boundaries Break Certain Certainly Disposition Itself Lends Lines Me Much My Own One Or Two Outside Own People Playing Some Some People Temperament Test Think Two I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 30th, 1945

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