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 SanbornI think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.
David SanbornInstrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
David SanbornI think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.
David Sanborn