#be

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

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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

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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

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

— Steve Lacy

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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

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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. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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

— Steve Lacy

#first of all #good #later #maybe #sad

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. ↗

— Alan Ladd

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I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again. ↗

— Alan Ladd

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I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else. ↗

— Alan Ladd

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