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Steve Lacy
July 23, 1934 - June 4, 2004
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician

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.

   

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

   

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

   

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.

   

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

   

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

   

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

   

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

   

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

   

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

   

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.

   

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

   

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

   

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

   

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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