Kenny Quotes

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.