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

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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"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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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."

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

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

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"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."

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

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"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music."
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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
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"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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"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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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"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."
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"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."
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"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."
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"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
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"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."
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