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Steve Lacy

"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."

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"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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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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"I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever."
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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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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"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."
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"You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others."
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"I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete."
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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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