Steve Lacy

'Steve Lacy' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Lacy, Steve Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Denis A. Charles: An Interrupted Conversation

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Miles Gloriosus

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A memoria

  1996, role: composer

Lacy, Steve Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Side Effects

  2013, role: actor , character name: Reporter #2
• Play in Full Screen NewsCenter 5

  1972, role: actor , character name: Weekend anchor

Famous quotes by Steve Lacy:

"The sad part is the emotional toll it's taken over the years."

"Right away, you felt the architecture of his music was very strong, so whatever you were going to put on top adornments or improvising you really had to know the material."

"We believe our revenues are at or near the top of the industry."

"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another."

"The potential for the saxophone is unlimited."

"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."

"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."

"You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others."

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

"Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo."

"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."

"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."

"I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down."

"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."

"The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano."

"Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways."

"When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing."

"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die."

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

"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

Born: 1934-07-23

Died: 2004-06-04