saxophone quotes

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

- (Enoch) Arnold Bennett
Quoted in Derek Watson Music Quotations (1991).

To Walden the saxophone was, at once, his key to the world in which he found himself, and the way by which that world was rendered impotent to brand him either a failure or madman or Negro or saint.

-John Clellon Holmes
  The Horn,'Chorus:  Walden'.