Saxophone Quote by Steve Lacy Download Open image “You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.” — Steve Lacy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 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. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra — Gerry Mulligan 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
Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it — Gerry Mulligan 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
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
