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Steve Lacy Quotes
Bamboo is not a weed, its a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasnt my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. - Steve Lacy Quotes
I was spoiled by Monks music because it was so good, so complete. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Ive always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. Thats how I got from there to here. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Ive been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. Its up to you, the only limit is the imagination. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Ive performed solo for 20 years now, but I dont do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. - Steve Lacy Quotes
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. Its called do or die. - Steve Lacy Quotes
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that. - Steve Lacy Quotes
If youre trying to invent something new, youre going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. - Steve Lacy Quotes
It starts with a single sound. If theres something in that sound, then its worth continuing. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Its very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Jazz is peoples music, a collectivity. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didnt know that at first. - Steve Lacy Quotes
People dont want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. - Steve Lacy Quotes
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. - Steve Lacy Quotes
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. - Steve Lacy Quotes
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited. - Steve Lacy Quotes
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