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Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#anything #call #cool #fine #formula

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#better #customers #front #i #improvise

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

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

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

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

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. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#another #approach #comes #everybody #jump

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

I've never hit anybody who hasn't clocked me two or three times. ↗

— Rip Torn

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