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Steve Lacy

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

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

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"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."
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"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"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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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
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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."
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"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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"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"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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