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Top 20 Lee Konitz Quotes (2025 Update)

Lee Konitz Quote: “A first love always occupies a special place.”

1. “A first love always occupies a special place.”

Lee Konitz 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.”

2. “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 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.”

3. “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 Quote: “As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.”

4. “As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.”

5. “We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.”

6. “In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That’s why I wanted the clarinet.”

7. “Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That’s why I wanted the clarinet.”

Lee Konitz 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.”

8. “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 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.”

9. “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 Quote: “I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.”

10. “I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “I listen to classical music very much. There’s a lot of jazz that I don’t enjoy listening to.”

11. “I listen to classical music very much. There’s a lot of jazz that I don’t enjoy listening to.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “Sound is the first thing that we tune into.”

12. “Sound is the first thing that we tune into.”

Lee Konitz 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.”

13. “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 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.”

14. “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 Quote: “I love Indian music very much, but I haven’t studied that specifically.”

15. “I love Indian music very much, but I haven’t studied that specifically.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “That’s kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.”

16. “That’s kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “It’s very demanding to make up your own music.”

17. “It’s very demanding to make up your own music.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “Out of Coltrane’s whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.”

18. “Out of Coltrane’s whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.”

Lee Konitz 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.”

19. “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 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.”

20. “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 Quote: “Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.”

21. “Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “I’d like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I’ve heard.”

22. “I’d like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I’ve heard.”

Lee Konitz Quote: “Names and theoretical things don’t occur to me. If they do, I’m not doing my real playing mode.”

23. “Names and theoretical things don’t occur to me. If they do, I’m not doing my real playing mode.”

Lee Konitz 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.”

24. “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.”

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