History Quote by Steve Lacy Download Open image “I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.” — Steve Lacy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Jazz Music New orleans
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in… — Luke James Copy Share Image
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. — John Goodman Copy Share Image
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,… — The Edge Copy Share Image
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk.… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
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