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David Sanborn

I think, in a lot of ways, it’s easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

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David Sanborn

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that’s what art is.

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David Sanborn

As a melody instrument player, it’s all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything’s moving forward, and it’s all linear.

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David Sanborn

My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake’s son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.

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David Sanborn

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

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David Sanborn

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.

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David Sanborn

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.

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David Sanborn

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.

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David Sanborn

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.

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David Sanborn

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.

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David Sanborn

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

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David Sanborn

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.

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