Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitzis an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist who was born in Chicago, Illinois...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth13 October 1927
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Lee Konitz quotes about
american-musician
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
american-musician block chords fit full looking note rest soon
As soon as I play full bodied, I block out the rest of the sound. I'm just looking for the right note to fit the chords I'm hearing.
american-musician busy everybody learn messiah people trying
People look for a messiah all the time. And everybody is just busy doing their own thing, trying to learn how to play the music.
american-musician found great inspired played welcome
I've played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities.
american-musician hear instrument interested sound
Each of these instruments has a voice, and if I hear a sound on an instrument that I don't like, I'm not interested usually in what he plays.
american-musician percent pure
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
american-musician
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
american-musician
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
music player vocabulary
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
trying special way
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.
guy way hung
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
mean play names
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.
meaningful goal tone
That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.
doe way musician
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.