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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#i #jazz #music #new #new orleans

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

— Steve Lacy

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I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#because #crazy #foolish #go #i

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#heart #jazz #note #play #risk

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#amazed #collapse #cuts #deferred #economy

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#economy #effects #income #sum #zero

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced. ↗

— James Lafferty

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