Lee Konitz Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Lee Konitz:
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
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We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
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A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
~Lee Konitz
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Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
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After playing now for 60 years, it's 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
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
~Lee Konitz
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Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
~Lee Konitz
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Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
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You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.
~Lee Konitz
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Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's 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
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
~Lee Konitz
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Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
~Lee Konitz
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In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
~Lee Konitz
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I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
~Lee Konitz
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It's very demanding to make up your own music.
~Lee Konitz
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Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
~Lee Konitz
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I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
~Lee Konitz
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Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
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I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
~Lee Konitz
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As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
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A first love always occupies a special place.
~Lee Konitz
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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.
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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
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I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
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I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
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