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Lee Konitz [1927-0] American

Rank: 103
Musician, Composer

Lee Konitz is an American composer and alto saxophonist.
He has performed successfully in a wide range of jazz styles, including bebop, cool jazz and avant-garde jazz.

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A first love always occupies a special place.		101
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.		102
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.		103
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.		104
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.		105
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.		106
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.		107
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.		108
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.		109
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.		110
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.		111
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.		112
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.		113
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.		114
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.		115
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.		116
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.		117
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.		118
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.		119
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.		120
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.		121
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.		122
It's very demanding to make up your own music.		123
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.		124
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.		125
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.		126
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.		201

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