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

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Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time. . . When We Were Colored. ' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Steve Lacy

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

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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.

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In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

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It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

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

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