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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.

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.

Steve Lacy

First

Trying

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Steve Lacy

People

Trying

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

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.

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.

Steve Lacy

Music

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.

Steve Lacy

People

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.

Steve Lacy

Production

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.