"As long as there are people trying to……" — Lee Konitz
"As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz."
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28 Quotes by Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz has 28 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in…
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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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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 understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call…
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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,…
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A first love always occupies a special place.
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Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
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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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More Jazz Quotes
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one of 1,344 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
— Louis Armstrong
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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You blows who you is.
— Louis Armstrong
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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
— Louis Armstrong
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
— Lester Bangs
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything…
— Travis Barker
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
— Travis Barker
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren G. Bennis
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I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I…
— Steven Adler
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