Steve Lacy

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

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

— Steve Lacy

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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 #just #know #periods

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#music #people

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

— Steve Lacy

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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

#anything #certainly #first #i #know

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

#biggest problems #good #immediately #people #problems

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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

— Steve Lacy

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Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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