#real

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#i #me #mode #names #occur

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#guys #hung #i #learn #missed

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#argue #certain #certain things #completely #compulsively

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#deal #else #everyone #hands #i

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#am #because #beginning #collapsing #compulsive

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#also #art #bigger #could #dad

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#become #biggest #biggest problem #friends #involved

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #different #essays #i #interested

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#biological #decided #i #interested #made

Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work. ↗

— John Kluge

#drive #enthusiasm #go #into #like