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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.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Awful #Research #Originality
“Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Uprising #Threat #Status Quo
“The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Saxophone #Unlimited
“It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Sound #Continuing
“Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Music #Heart #Play
“I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Play #Saxophone #Dukes
“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Art #Thinking #Collaboration
“You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Saxophone
“Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.”
-- Steve Lacy

#People #Jazz #Collectivity
“Make the drummer sound good.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Crafts #Sound #Drummer
“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.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Weed #Marijuana #Vibrations
“A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Athlete #Artist #Dancer
“Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Weed #Marijuana #Bamboo
“Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.”
-- Steve Lacy
“A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his very strong commitment & motivation to aim for high musical goals. Talent like his is rare.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Strong #Motivation #Creativity
“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.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Fear #Real #Sharks
“Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Grateful #Way #Different
“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

#Giving Up #Important #Rotten
“What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Temptation #Survival #Strategy
“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.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Song #Voice #Elements
“In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Music #Want #Improvisation
“Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Music #Wine #Want
“I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Music #Old Things #Sound
“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

#Play #Interesting #Risk
“Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Saxophone #Music Is
“Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.”
-- Steve Lacy

#People #Important #Circumstances
“I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Music #New Orleans #Jazz
“I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Pianist #Wanted
“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

#Years #Imagination #Limits
“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.”
-- Steve Lacy

#Trying #Firsts #Saxophone

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