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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

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Donna Grant

"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."

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Donna Grant

"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."

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Donna Grant

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."

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Donna Grant

"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

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Donna Grant

"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."

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Donna Grant

"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."

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Donna Grant

"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

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Donna Grant

"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."

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Donna Grant

"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."

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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."

Time

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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
"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 first love always occupies a special place."

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Lee Konitz
"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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Lee Konitz
"I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart."

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