I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. — Lee Konitz Classical music Copy Share Image
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section… — Lee Konitz Enough Copy Share Image
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to… — Lee Konitz Able Copy Share Image
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I… — Lee Konitz Combination Copy Share Image
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… — Lee Konitz Able Copy Share Image
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. — Lee Konitz Coltrane Copy Share Image
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out. — Lee Konitz Hung Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. — Lee Konitz Bigs Copy Share Image
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van… — Lee Konitz Car Copy Share Image
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard. — Lee Konitz Feels Copy Share Image
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. — Lee Konitz Indian Copy Share Image
You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and… — Lee Konitz Approach Copy Share Image
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came… — Lee Konitz Building Copy Share Image
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. — Lee Konitz Doing me Copy Share Image
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz. — Lee Konitz Jazz Copy Share Image
After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and… — Lee Konitz Challenges Copy Share Image
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. — Lee Konitz Lester young Copy Share Image
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. — Lee Konitz Clarinet Copy Share Image
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country. — Lee Konitz Around Copy Share Image
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. — Lee Konitz Jazz Copy Share Image
