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Lee Konitz
American
Musician
About the author
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Names
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Play
#Result
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Music
#Ego
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Right
#Play
#Trying
#Name
#Formula
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Work
#Jazz
#Vocabulary
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,
American
Musician
#Europe
#Car
#Night
#Traveling
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#History
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#First
#Sound
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Will
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Saying
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Work
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Jazz
#Music
#Listening
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Play
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Sound
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.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Building
#World
#Jazz
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Will
#Play
#Trying
#Jazz
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#Now
#Years
#Play
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Country
A first love always occupies a special place.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Love
#First
#First love
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
Lee Konitz,
American
Musician
#Love
#Music