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As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
— Lee Konitz
Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
— Molly Ivins
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
— Lee Konitz
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
— Lee Konitz
Why don't you take off your shirt?" he finally asked. "I bet you say that to all the girls.
— Sarah Addison Allen
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
— Lee Konitz
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
— 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
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
— 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
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
— John Carroll
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
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
— Lee Konitz
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
— Lee Konitz
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
— Lee Konitz
A first love always occupies a special place.
— Lee Konitz
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
— Lee Konitz
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
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
— Lee Konitz
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
— Lee Konitz
My heart breaks literally into a thousand tiny pieces.
— Lilah K. London