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Saxophone Quotes by Steve Lacy
- 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.
- Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
- The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
- You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
- I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
- I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
- 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…
- The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
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