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Steve Lacy has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Make the drummer sound good.
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Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
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Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
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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…
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A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…
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Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
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A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing…
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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…
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If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
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Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
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If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find…
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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…
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Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.…
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And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…
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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
— Steve Lacy
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After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad…
— Matthew Quick
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The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews…
— Matisyahu
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To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
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