"If you're trying to invent something new, you're……" — Steve Lacy
"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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50 Quotes by Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy has 50 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…
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A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer,…
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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…
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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a…
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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…
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If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will…
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It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to…
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More Discouraging Quotes
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one of 226 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for…
— Alfred Adler
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever…
— Mariah Carey
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we…
— William J. Clinton
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
— Chuck Daly
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
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When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He…
— Ralph Miller
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By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport.…
— Svetlana Boginskaya
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost…
— Cesar Chavez
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words…
— Don Henley
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