Steve Lacy

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.