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Steve Lacy

American

July 23, 1934

Musician

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

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I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

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I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

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