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Steve Lacy Quotes & Sayings
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You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
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You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
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You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
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Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
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When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
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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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When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
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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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We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.
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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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They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
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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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The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
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The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
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The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
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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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Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
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Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
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