Lee Konitz quotes
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“A first love always occupies a special place.”
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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.”
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“I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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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“I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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“Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.”
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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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“As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.”
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“I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.”
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“It's very demanding to make up your own music.”
-- Lee Konitz
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