"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every…" — Steve Lacy
"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk."
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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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More Every Note Quotes
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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for…
— Branford Marsalis
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I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything…
— Jimmy Page
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If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at…
— Coleman Hawkins
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Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.
— Herbert von Karajan
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my…
— Unknown Author
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She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.
— Unknown Author
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Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a…
— Butch Walker
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The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the…
— Glenn Gould
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Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for…
— William Booth
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the…
— Carla Bley
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Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the…
— Joseph Addison
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Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing…
— Frank Sinatra
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