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Lee Konitz
Profession : Musician
Birth : October 13, 1927
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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.
Lee Konitz
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
Lee Konitz
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
Lee Konitz
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
Lee Konitz
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Lee Konitz
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
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
Lee Konitz
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
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
Lee Konitz
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
Lee Konitz
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
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
Lee Konitz
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
Lee Konitz
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
Lee Konitz
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
Lee Konitz
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Lee Konitz
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Lee Konitz
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