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Steve Lacy

You must have the music to justify an instrument’s extensive use.

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Steve Lacy

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

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Steve Lacy

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

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Steve Lacy

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

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Steve Lacy

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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Steve Lacy

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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Steve Lacy

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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Steve Lacy

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.

– Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

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

Steve Lacy

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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Steve Lacy

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

Steve Lacy

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

– Steve Lacy

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