#thing

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

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#music #one thing #saxophone #thing

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#catch #happened #monk #more #original

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

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

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

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

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

— Alan Ladd

#acting #costumes #everything #know #producer

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#black #close #good #gray #i

I was never trained for anything. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#i #never #trained