"We played for peanuts. But we did what……" — Steve Lacy
"We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn."
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50 Quotes by Steve Lacy
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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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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week…
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
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Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
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