#very

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#cartoonist #family #family guy #guy #high

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

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

— Lee Konitz

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

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

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

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#battery #beautiful #building #cheap #contradictory