Saxophone: Difference between revisions
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Your guitar tone is huge and thick, almost like a baritone sax...
"Well that’s the kind of sound I’ve been striving to achieve. I’ll never get exactly what I want, but it’s just like music itself. When I first started listening as a kid, I’d hear some piece of classical music and it would make me want to cry. And I didn’t understand it, so instinctively I knew I wanted to be a listener and an absorber of music. It’s like when you first fall in love and it’s an agony and an ecstasy at the same time; that’s because there’s something that you don’t understand and that’s what I love about music. It’s like being in love with something you know you’re never going to get. And it’s the same with the sound: to me the sound is part of the music; I’ve always strived to achieve a certain sound and that’s a neverending quest for me." | Your guitar tone is huge and thick, almost like a baritone sax...
"Well that’s the kind of sound I’ve been striving to achieve. I’ll never get exactly what I want, but it’s just like music itself. When I first started listening as a kid, I’d hear some piece of classical music and it would make me want to cry. And I didn’t understand it, so instinctively I knew I wanted to be a listener and an absorber of music. It’s like when you first fall in love and it’s an agony and an ecstasy at the same time; that’s because there’s something that you don’t understand and that’s what I love about music. It’s like being in love with something you know you’re never going to get. And it’s the same with the sound: to me the sound is part of the music; I’ve always strived to achieve a certain sound and that’s a neverending quest for me." | ||
...and what has come to light for me is that the music is the most important thing; the way you write it, or the way you play it. I really don’t think the instrument has anything to do with it at all. For me the instrument happens to be the guitar, because I’ve played that particular instrument longer than anything else and am able to express myself more easily on it, than say on piano. It’s only as time has evolved that I’ve got to a certain stage -however grim, or good doesn’t matter- it’s just better now than it was a few years ago. | |||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (International Musician 1981)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth (International Musician 1981)]]== | ||
