#co

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 #going #invent #lot #most

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

#become #call #else #go #going

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#contain #does #living #living thing #me

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

— Steve Lacy

#discouraged #getting #how #i #learned

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#acting #costumes #everything #know #producer

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. ↗

— David R. Brower

#concrete #cracked #held #open #sea

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#everybody #i #i wish #into #love

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#coast #depression #east #east coast #everyone

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#around #back #comes #corner #death

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#comeback #end #i #knew #made