Quotes about Lee Konitz

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able...

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It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and...

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In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does...

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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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I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The...

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I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't...

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I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some...

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I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

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I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but...

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