Lee Konitz Quotes

• Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Firsts, Sound

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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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  Música, Jugar, Largo

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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 that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

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  Sound, Want, Seven

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

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• 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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  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

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• That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

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  Meaningful, Goal, Tone

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• In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

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  Musician, Doe, Way

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• Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

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  Music, Player, Vocabulary

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• You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

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  Special, Trying, Way

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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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  Real, Names, Doing Me

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• El primer amor siempre ocupa un lugar especial.

  Lee Konitz

  First Love, Special, Firsts

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• Después de tocar durante 60 años, sigue siendo un reto para mí tocar una melodía sencilla y que sea limpia y toque la lengüeta en el momento adecuado y de la forma adecuada.

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  Simple, Years, Play

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• 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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  Mean, Play, Names

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• Comprendí que si quería trabajar, el saxofón era el instrumento principal. El clarinete era lo que llamamos un doble.

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  Double Standard, Saxophone, Instruments

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• Como trompetista, siempre sentí que una jam session no me satisfacía lo suficiente. En realidad, debería haber sido músico de sección rítmica.

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  Player, Should Have, Horny

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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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  Música, Jugar, Jazz

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• We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

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  Guy, Way, Hung

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• Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

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  Thinking, Periods, Coltrane

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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 possible to play. I appreciate that.

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  Play, Appreciate, Able

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• Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

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  Music, Player, Jazz

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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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  Listening, Jazz, Classical Music

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

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  Havens, Indian Music, Indian

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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, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

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  New York, Kids, Player

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• I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

  Lee Konitz

  Night, Europe, Car

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