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The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
- Steve Lacy
#Potential
#Saxophone
#Unlimited
I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
- Steve Lacy
#Complete
#Good
#Monk
#Music
#Spoiled
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
#Imagination
#Limit
#Possibilities
#Up
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
- Steve Lacy
#Heard
#Love
#Play
#Saxophone
#Soprano
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
- Steve Lacy
#Another
#Music
#One Thing
#Saxophone
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
- Steve Lacy
#Before
#Invent
#Work
#You
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
#Go
#Important
#Know
#Sound
#Through
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
- Steve Lacy
#Jazz
#Music
#People
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
#Approach
#Intensity
#Song
#Violin
#Voice
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
- Steve Lacy
#History
#Jazz
#Music
#New
#Through
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
- Steve Lacy
#Discouraged
#How
#Strategy
#Survival
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
#Boring
#Difficult
#Losing
#Too Much
People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
- Steve Lacy
#Good
#People
#Problems
#Sound
#World
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.
- Steve Lacy
#Alone
#Crazy
#Go
#Music
#Play
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
- Steve Lacy
#Alone
#Must
#Others
#Saxophone
#Work
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.
- Steve Lacy
#Find
#Important
#People
#Right
#Work
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
- Steve Lacy
#Better
#History
#Jazz
#Love
#Sound
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
- Steve Lacy
#Bamboo
#Magnificent
#Plant
#Weed
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
- Steve Lacy
#Jazz
#Like
#New
#Only
#Wine
You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
- Steve Lacy
#First
#Good
#Later
#Sad
#Sound
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
- Steve Lacy
#Art
#Collaboration
#Nature
#Think
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