67 Quotes by Steve Lacy

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.