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" A first love always occupies a special place. "
Lee Konitz
Always
First Love
Love
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" As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. "
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Play
" 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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World
Building
" It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. "
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Ego
Black And White
" 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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Someone
" Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. "
Lee Konitz
Why
Wanted
Influences
" 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. "
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Now
Time
Simple
" Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. "
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Out
Things
Think
" 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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Other
Missed
Learn
" I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane. "
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Many
Things
Coltrane
" I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard. "
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Result
Feel
Like
" 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
Spell
Cool
Name
" I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically. "
Lee Konitz
Much
Indian Music
Indian
" Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. "
Lee Konitz
Doing
Playing
Things
" I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to. "
Lee Konitz
Listening
Enjoy
Jazz
" Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. "
Lee Konitz
Jazz
Vocabulary
Very
" 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
Car
Train
Night
" In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. "
Lee Konitz
Some
Things
Young
" Sound is the first thing that we tune into. "
Lee Konitz
First
Tune
Thing
" 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
Jam
Enough
Always
" I wish that person outside would stop coughing. "
Lee Konitz
I Wish
Wish
Stop
" Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. "
Lee Konitz
Think
Way
Saying
" 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
Want
Stop
Sound
" It's very demanding to make up your own music. "
Lee Konitz
Up
Demanding
Make
" 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
Work
Instrument