“When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the d...” — David Sanborn Quote

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

When I was about 14, I got on the bus, and my sister's friend's brother handed me a burnt CD that said 'American Idiot,' and that was pretty much the first time that I fell in love with music. I couldn't stop listening to it. I saw an acoustic guitar sitting around the house, and I picked it up.

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.