Author: Lee Konitz

Quotes

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.

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.

- Lee Konitz

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

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

- Lee Konitz

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

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

- Lee Konitz

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

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

- Lee Konitz

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

- Lee Konitz

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

- Lee Konitz

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.

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

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

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

- Lee Konitz

A first love always occupies a special place.

A first love always occupies a special place.

- Lee Konitz

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