Steve Lacy Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.”

“They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.”

“We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.”

“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.”

“The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.”

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

“If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.”

“Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.”

“I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.”

“Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.”