67 Quotes by Steve Lacy

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Bamboo is not a weed, it’s a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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

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

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It’s called do or die.

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.