top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more History quotes
"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
"Once upon a time, there was a civilization in the eastern side of the world. It was one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet that existed during that time.This civilization was the glorious Indus valley civilization. No, I am not talking about India. I am talking about the land of greatness that got lost in time. Today, in the same geographical location of that great civilization, we have a piece of earth, which is known as "India. But do not mistake it to be the same glorious land that existed thousands of years ago, along with other magnificent civilizations, such as the Greeks, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc."
"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."
"Every period in history has its own peculiarities."
"If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
"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."
"Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary."
"I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to."
bottom of page