Quotes by Lee Konitz - Page 1

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Music
Firsts
Sound
First Thing
The First Thing
Tune
Copy Quote
A first love always occupies a special place.
Lee Konitz / Composer
First Love
Firsts
Love Always
Special
First
Place
Occupies
Special Place
Copy Quote
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Music Your Own
Demanding
Make Up
Copy Quote
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Coughing
Wish
Outside
Copy Quote
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Coltrane
Copy Quote
That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Goal
Meaningful
Tone
Copy Quote
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Havens
Indian
Indian Music
Studied
Specifically
Copy Quote
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Music
Jazz
Play
Result
Copy Quote
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Music
Long
Play
Copy Quote
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Jazz
Sincere
Music Long People
Play Music
Copy Quote
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Classical Music
Jazz
Listening
Music Jazz Listening
Classical
Copy Quote
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Coltrane
Periods
Thinking
Copy Quote
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Doing Me
Names
Real
Theoretical
Me Real Doing
Mode
Occur
Copy Quote
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Guy
Hung
Way
Missed
Copy Quote
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Music
Clarinet
Goodman
Jazz
Player
Benny
Influences
Copy Quote
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Black And White
Involved
Percent
Pure
Attitudes
Copy Quote
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Music
Jazz
Player
Vocabulary
Work Out
Extent
Solos
Specific
Copy Quote
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Clarinet
Double Standard
Instruments
Saxophone
Understood
Double
Instrument
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
People
Thinking
Way
Better People Way
Improvise
Paying
Copy Quote
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Doe
Musician
Phenomenal
Way
Complex
Lester
Rhythmically
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Horny
Jam
Player
Rhythm
Rhythm Section
Satisfying
Session
Should Have
Me Always Enough
Horn
Section
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Able
Appreciate
Audience
Huge
Play
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Kids
New York
Jazz
Player
World New Find
Copy Quote
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.
Lee Konitz / Composer
Approach
Special
Trying
Way
Keep Will New
Jump
New Way
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Clean
Melody
Play
Simple
Years
Time Me Simple
Touch
Reed
Proper
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Combination
Notes
Seven
Sound
Want
Minor
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Labels
Mean
Names
Play
Passionately
Spell
Copy Quote
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 / Composer
Car
Europe
Every Night
Hotel
Night
Apart
Weeks
Checked
Completed
Requires
Tour
Van
Copy Quote

Related Composer Authors

Zoltan Kodaly
Composer
Saturday, Dec 16, 1882
Monday, Mar 06, 1967
Yoko Shimomura
Composer
Thursday, Oct 19, 1967
Yasunori Mitsuda
Composer
Friday, Jan 21, 1972
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Tuesday, Jan 27, 1756
Monday, Dec 05, 1791
Witold Lutosławski
Composer
Saturday, Jan 25, 1913
Monday, Feb 07, 1994
William Walton
Composer
Saturday, Mar 29, 1902
Tuesday, Mar 08, 1983
William Kraft
Composer
Thursday, Sep 06, 1923
William Howard Schuman
Composer
Thursday, Aug 04, 1910
Saturday, Feb 15, 1992
William Christopher Handy
Composer
Sunday, Nov 16, 1873
Friday, Mar 28, 1958
William Bolcom
Composer
Thursday, May 26, 1938
William Billings
Composer
Friday, Oct 07, 1746
Friday, Sep 26, 1800
Walter Piston
Composer
Saturday, Jan 20, 1894
Friday, Nov 12, 1976
Walter Abendroth
Composer
Friday, May 29, 1896
Sunday, Sep 30, 1973
W.a. Mathieu
Composer
Vladimir Franz
Composer
Monday, May 25, 1959

View All Composer Quotes

Top Authors

Dolly Parton
Singer-Songwriter
Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
Dr. Seuss
Writer
Wednesday, Mar 02, 1904
Tuesday, Sep 24, 1991
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist
Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
Thursday, Apr 04, 1968
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
Tuesday, May 06, 1862
Khalil Gibran
Poet
Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
Friday, Apr 10, 1931
Thomas Sowell
Economist
Monday, Jun 30, 1930
Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004
Walt Disney
Animator
Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
Thursday, Dec 15, 1966
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Isaac Newton
Physicist
Sunday, Jan 04, 1643
Monday, Mar 31, 1727
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
Muhammad Ali
Professional Boxer
Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
Friday, Jun 03, 2016
Zig Ziglar
Author
Saturday, Nov 06, 1926
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012
Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

View All Authors

Lee Konitz Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Composer Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Composer Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page