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

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"I try not to do anything by formula."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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

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

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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
"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."

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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
"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
"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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