"Jazz is people's music, a collectivity." — Steve Lacy

"Jazz is people's music, a collectivity."

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50 Quotes by Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy has 50 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Make the drummer sound good.
Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit…
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer,…
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well…
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a…
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give…
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out…
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will…
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 Collectivity Quotes

This quote is filed under Collectivity Quotes, one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember,… — Rajneesh
I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each… — Assata Shakur
The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days… — Dane Rudhyar
It’s not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to… — Unknown Author
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. — Simone de Beauvoir
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their… — Antonio Gramsci
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when… — Antonio Gramsci
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know… — Harold Bloom
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to… — Simone de Beauvoir
Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity. — Nirmala Srivastava
The history of the People is one of cooperation, collectivity, and living in balance. The history of the Indians is… — John Trudell

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