"It was 100 percent music. There was no……" — Lee Konitz

"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."

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28 Quotes by Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it…
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a…
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know…
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it…
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in…
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call…
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid,…
A first love always occupies a special place.
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

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More Attitudes Quotes

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It… — Irving Berlin
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real… — Alfred Adler
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the… — Joe Biden
Bad attitudes will ruin your team. — Terry Bradshaw
Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's… — Jo Brand
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad. — Dallin H. Oaks
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values,… — Rick Warren
Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad. — Dwight L. Moody
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According… — Alice Miller
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the… — Stephen Covey

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