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.
From Steve Lacy
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.
It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
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.
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.
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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