#han

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#ever #history #i #jazz #love

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#guess #i #just #pianist #rather

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#been #did #extremely #got #great

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

#armstrong #better #free #hear #listen

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#around #could #getting #hang #hope

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#done #else #i #including #life

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#climbs #creative #creative people #explore #greater

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#change #deeds #fail #failing #how