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Coltrane Quote by Lee Konitz

“Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.” quote by Lee Konitz — Download Open image

“Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.”

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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 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 hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

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A first love always occupies a special place.

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It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

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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…

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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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I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

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John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

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My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My…

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you,…

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

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As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising…

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I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for…

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Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say…

In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the…

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John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. … The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or…

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