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Steve Lacy

"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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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Amber Hurdle

"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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Amber Hurdle

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

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Amber Hurdle

"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

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Amber Hurdle

"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

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Amber Hurdle

"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."

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Amber Hurdle

"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."

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Steve Lacy
"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."

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Steve Lacy
"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."

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Steve Lacy
"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."

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Steve Lacy
"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."

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Steve Lacy
"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."

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Steve Lacy
"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."

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Steve Lacy
"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."

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Steve Lacy
"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."

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Steve Lacy
"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."

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Steve Lacy
"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."

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