Steve Lacy Quotes


You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. - Steve Lacy


You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. - Steve Lacy


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


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


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


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


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