Lee Konitz Quotes

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.

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

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

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

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

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