Steve Lacy Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.”

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

“When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.”

“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.”

“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.”