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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

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

— Steve Lacy

#instrument #justify #music #must #use

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

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#flood #material #nobody #stand #stand up

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

— Alan Ladd

#acting #costumes #everything #know #producer