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Steve Lacy

"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."

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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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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

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"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."

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Asa Don Brown

"I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth."

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Asa Don Brown

"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place."

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Asa Don Brown

"I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener."

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Asa Don Brown

"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."

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Asa Don Brown

"When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it."

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Asa Don Brown

"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"

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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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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration."
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"You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others."
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"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz."
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"You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use."
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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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