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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. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#apart #car #checked #completed #days

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#art #believe #concern #gets #help

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

— Lee Konitz

#i #i love #indian #indian music #love

I wish that person outside would stop coughing. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#i #i wish #outside #person #stop

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#complex #does #just #lester #most

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#black #black and white #ego #involved #music

It's very demanding to make up your own music. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#make #make up #music #own #up

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#jazz #jazz players #least #most #out

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

— Lee Konitz

#great #history #i #i think #out

Sound is the first thing that we tune into. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#first thing #into #sound #the first thing #thing