"People don't want to suffer. They want to……" — Steve Lacy
"People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world."
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50 Quotes by Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy has 50 quotes on this site.
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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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If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give…
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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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