I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn’t my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. Steve Lacy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. Steve Lacy Read Quote
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. Steve Lacy Read Quote
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. Steve Lacy Read Quote
