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Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. ↗

— Barbara Kolb

#composing #contemplative #doing #emotional #feminine

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#die #faithfully #grown #i #i do

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#grown #i #last #me #placed

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#i #i do #indeed #inspired #itself

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. ↗

— E. L. Konigsburg

#allow #already #also #around #begin

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. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#challenging #clean #me #melody #now

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#long #music #people #play #play music

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#big #clarinet #goodman #i #influences

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. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#building #came #find #fine #going

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#always #been #enough #felt #horn