Steve Lacy Saxophone Quotations

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

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.