Kenny G Quotes

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I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

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Inspirational, Music, Years

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I really create everything I do from the heart.

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Heart

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Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

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I've Learned, Seems, Anything Is Possible

"Namaste & Conversation : Interviews With Kenny G and David Benoit, Plus Downtown Struts and Sara Jackson-Holman Exclusives". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

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Communication, Thinking, Play

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I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

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Way, Feels Right, Approach

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I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

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Mean, Thinking, Jazz

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I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

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Letting Go, Thinking, Space

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I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

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Heart, Follow Your Heart, My Heart

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I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

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Golf, Technique, Body

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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

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Nice, Smooth Jazz, Adults

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Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

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Thinking, Jazz, Fit

"Kenny G is 55: A “Chirpy” Interview From 2002". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. 2002.

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I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

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Bad Vibes, Vibes, I've Learned

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That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

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Parenting, Boys, Parenthood

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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

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Friday, School, Kids

"Namaste & Conversation : Interviews With Kenny G and David Benoit, Plus Downtown Struts and Sara Jackson-Holman Exclusives". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

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Students

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I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

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Fusion, Joining, Gigs

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Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

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Religious, People, Musical

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I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

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Song, Rap, Ego

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If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

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Mistake, Glasses, Disappointed

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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

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Song, Thinking, Guy

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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

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College, Listening, Jazz

"Namaste & Conversation : Interviews With Kenny G and David Benoit, Plus Downtown Struts and Sara Jackson-Holman Exclusives". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

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Play, Feels, Audience

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The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.

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Simple, Challenges, Feelings

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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

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Song, Offended You, Play

"Kenny G is 55: A “Chirpy” Interview From 2002". Interview with Ted Panken, tedpanken.wordpress.com. 2002.

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It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

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Artist, Important, Should

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Born: June 5, 1956
Occupation: Saxophonist
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