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Lee Konitz

"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."

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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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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Donna Grant

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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Donna Grant

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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Donna Grant

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

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Donna Grant

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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Donna Grant

"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."

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Donna Grant

"I try not to do anything by formula."

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Donna Grant

"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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Donna Grant

"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."

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Lee Konitz
"Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods."

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Lee Konitz
"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."

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Lee Konitz
"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."

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Lee Konitz
"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."

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Lee Konitz
"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."

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Lee Konitz
"It's very demanding to make up your own music."

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Lee Konitz
"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."

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Lee Konitz
"I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically."

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Lee Konitz
"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."

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Lee Konitz
"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."

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