All Steve Lacy Quotes
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.
Steve Lacy
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Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
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People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
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Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
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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.
Steve Lacy
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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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The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
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I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
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I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
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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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I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
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Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
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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.
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