"I listen to classical music very much. There's……" — Lee Konitz
"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."
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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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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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As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
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More Classical Quotes
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one of 639 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
— Bjork
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to…
— Tony Blair
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances,…
— Dave Brubeck
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes…
— Dave Brubeck
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real…
— Nicolas Cage
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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for…
— Paulo Coelho
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