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Lee Konitz Quotes
A first love always occupies a special place. - Lee Konitz Quotes
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country. - Lee Konitz Quotes
After playing now for 60 years, its still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way. - Lee Konitz Quotes
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. - Lee Konitz Quotes
As soon as I play full bodied, I block out the rest of the sound. Im just looking for the right note to fit the chords Im hearing. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. Thats why I wanted the clarinet. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. Hes a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Each of these instruments has a voice, and if I hear a sound on an instrument that I dont like, Im not interested usually in what he plays. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasnt satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really dont want to know that. I just want to know that theres a combination of notes that makes a sound. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I have been able to get a small audience. Its not the huge audience, but its enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I listen to classical music very much. Theres a lot of jazz that I dont enjoy listening to. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I love Indian music very much, but I havent studied that specifically. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I stand back, sometimes, behind the rhythm section, so I dont physically look like the leader. I dont like that concept too much. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. - Lee Konitz Quotes
I wish that person outside would stop coughing. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Id like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever Ive heard. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Ive played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities. - Lee Konitz Quotes
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. - Lee Konitz Quotes
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Its very demanding to make up your own music. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Labels dont mean anything to me. Im trying to play as passionately as Im able to. If they want to call that cool, thats fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Many people do think its naive to improvise in front of paying customers. Im not saying one way is better than another. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Names and theoretical things dont occur to me. If they do, Im not doing my real playing mode. - Lee Konitz Quotes
One of the most interesting recordings I ever heard was hearing Tristano and Charlie Parker playing together. They were both at their peak. - Lee Konitz Quotes
Out of Coltranes whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. - Lee Konitz Quotes
People look for a messiah all the time. And everybody is just busy doing their own thing, trying to learn how to play the music. - Lee Konitz Quotes
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