American - Musician | July 23, 1934 - June 4, 2004
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
Steve Lacy
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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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Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
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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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Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
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Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
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Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
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The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
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The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
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They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
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