Steve Lacy Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Heart, Play

• 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.

  Steve Lacy

  Fear, Real, Sharks

• I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Old Things, Sound

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

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Wine, Experts

• In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, Want, Jazz

• Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

  Steve Lacy

  People, Jazz, Collectivity

• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

• I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

  Steve Lacy

  Music, New Orleans, Jazz

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