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.
Steve Lacy
Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.
rights circumstances people work
people
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
people music
People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
sound people
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
invention people
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
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.
style people language
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.
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