Steve Lacy Quotes

• Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

  Steve Lacy

  Uprising, Threat, Status Quo

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• 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, Jazz

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

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• I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

  Steve Lacy

  Art, Thinking, Collaboration

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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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  Sound, Continuing, Ifs

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• El riesgo está en el corazón del jazz. Cada nota que tocamos es un riesgo.

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  Music, Heart, Play

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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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  Giving Up, Important, Sound

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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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  Armstrong, Ifs

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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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  People, Monk, Threat

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• El bambú no es una mala hierba, es una planta con flores. El bambú es una planta magnífica.

  Steve Lacy

  Weed, Marijuana, Bamboo

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• The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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  Saxophone, Unlimited

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• 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.

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  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

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• Las circunstancias pueden ser muy importantes. Encuentra a las personas adecuadas para trabajar.

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  People, Important, Circumstances

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• El jazz es como el vino. Cuando es nuevo es sólo para los expertos, pero cuando envejece todo el mundo lo quiere.

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  Music, Wine, Experts

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• If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

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  Play, Want, Dies

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• If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

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  Stars, Giving Up, People

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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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  Research, Awful, Originality

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• I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Pieces, Saxophone

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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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  Song, Voice, Elements

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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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  Fear, Real, Sharks

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• El jazz es la música de la gente, una colectividad.

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  People, Jazz, Collectivity

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• 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.

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  Play, Interesting, Risk

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• You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

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  Saxofón

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• I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

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  Pianist, Wanted

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• I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

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  Music, New Orleans, Jazz

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