Quotes by Steve Lacy

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

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Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested...

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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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Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite....

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People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one...

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Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with...

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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can...

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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

#Steve Lacy