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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

#call #go #into #kind #legitimate

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

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

#hear #heard #learn #learned #peanuts

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

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

#esoteric #first #i #just #knew

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

#full #heard #i #monk #musicians

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

— Steve Lacy

#original thing #quo #say #sort #status

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

— Steve Lacy

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

I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#i #make #me #much #nothing

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#else #entertaining #i #just #leave