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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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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

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

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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
"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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Lee Konitz
"As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz."

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Lee Konitz
"I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double."

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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
"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."

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

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