American - Musician | July 23, 1934 - June 4, 2004
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
Steve Lacy
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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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What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
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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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When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
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When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
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When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
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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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You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
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You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
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