Steve Lacy Quotes


Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. - Steve Lacy


Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. - Steve Lacy


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


Right away, you felt the architecture of his music was very strong, so whatever you were going to put on top adornments or improvising you really had to know the material. - Steve Lacy


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


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


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. - Steve Lacy


Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. - Steve Lacy


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


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