Steve Lacy Quotes

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

Nature, Art, Revealed

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

Wine, Older, Everybody

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

Heart, Play, Risk

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Steve Lacy

Research, Imitation, Awful

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, Play, Same

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
Steve Lacy

Potential, Saxophone, Unlimited

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

Work, Alone, Others

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

Weed, Plant, Bamboo

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

Work, Before, Invent

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

Work, Important, Find

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
Steve Lacy

Love, Old, Listening

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

Love, Play, Heard

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

Music, History, Through

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
Steve Lacy

Love, History, Old

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

Down, Wanted, Rather

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
Steve Lacy

Music, Good, Spoiled

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.
Steve Lacy

Great, Here, Playing

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

Working, Limit, Saxophone

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

Music, Alone, Crazy

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.
Steve Lacy

Music, Find, Die

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.
Steve Lacy

Free, Listen, Hear

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

Give, Trying, Reach

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
Steve Lacy

Single, Worth, Sound

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

Important, Give, Through

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
Steve Lacy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 23, 1934

Died: June 4, 2004

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