Lee Konitz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A first love always occupies a special place.
-- Lee Konitz

#First Love #Special #Firsts
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
-- Lee Konitz

#Musician #Doe #Way
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
-- Lee Konitz

#Indian Music
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.
-- Lee Konitz

#New York #Kids #Player
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
-- Lee Konitz

#Double Standard #Saxophone #Instruments
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
-- Lee Konitz

#Real #Names #Doing Me
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
-- Lee Konitz

#Listening #Jazz #Classical Music
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
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.
-- Lee Konitz

#Play #Appreciate #Able
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.
-- Lee Konitz

#Sound #Want #Seven
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
-- Lee Konitz

#Player #Jam #Enough
After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
-- Lee Konitz

#Simple #Years #Play
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
-- Lee Konitz

#Music #Player #Vocabulary
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
-- Lee Konitz

#Music #Player #Influence
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
-- Lee Konitz

#Music #Play #Long
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
-- Lee Konitz

#Music #Play #Results
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
-- Lee Konitz

#Music #Sound #Tunes
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
-- Lee Konitz

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