All Steve Lacy Quotes
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Steve Lacy
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The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
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I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
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Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
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What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
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I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
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To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
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Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
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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.
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When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
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It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
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I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
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It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
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