Steve Lacy Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Steve Lacy quotes and sayings page 4 (musician). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 46 we have.
“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.”
“I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.”
“I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.”
“People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.”
“Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.”
“Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.”
“What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.”
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