#music

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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

— Steve Lacy

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Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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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

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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

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You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

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As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

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