"Many people do think it's naive to improvise……" — Lee Konitz
"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."
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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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