"I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane." — Lee Konitz
"I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane."
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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 Coltrane Quotes
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens,…
— Maya Angelou
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To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.
— Elvin Jones
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If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind…
— Elvin Jones
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In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something.…
— Cecil Taylor
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I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces…
— Thelonious Monk
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... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane -…
— Phil Lesh
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Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began…
— Lenny Breau
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John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during…
— Albert Ayler
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John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without…
— Cornel West
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It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see…
— Alice Coltrane
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...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because…
— Alice Coltrane
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