"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying……" — Lee Konitz
"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 fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."
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28 Quotes by Lee Konitz
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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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