Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
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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
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
Lee Konitz
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
Lee Konitz
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
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
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