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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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"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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"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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"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
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"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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"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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"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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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically."
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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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"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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