Heart Quote by Steve Lacy Download Open image “Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.” — Steve Lacy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heart Jazz Music Notes Play Risk
“Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or physical uncertainties, we neither face nor court significant degrees of risk because a fundamental drive in the vast majority of us is toward the attainment of as much security as is possible. In this sense, jazzmen, of all… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
We must always take a risk. So I always don't want to take a risk because refusing to take a risk, is a risk… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. — Trombone Shorty 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
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… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate. — Rena Kornreich Gelissen Copy Share Image
“He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting. — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
