Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.
From Steve Lacy
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
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.
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.
You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
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