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A jazz musician is a combinat...

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 84 quotes

Risk is at the heart of jazz....

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

Steve Lacy 84 quotes

They call me before they go i...

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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The more original something i...

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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When I found the music of Mon...

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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Play difficult and interestin...

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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There is an awful lot of what...

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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We played for peanuts. But we...

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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I wanted to be a pianist but ...

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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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a ...

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

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Register is very important. M...

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

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Nobody was playing the sopran...

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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I've performed solo for 20 ye...

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

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The saxophone is a very inter...

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

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When I first started playing ...

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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To me, there is spirit in a r...

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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What I learned with Cecil Tay...

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

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I've always been extremely lu...

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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Jazz is like wine. When it is...

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Steve Lacy 84 quotes

The potential for the saxopho...

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Steve Lacy 84 quotes

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