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Lee Konitz Quotes

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 13, 1927

Topics

Work Double Call Understood Clarinet

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

Flowers Heaven Glory Christians Were

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

Water Roots Earth Blood Way Right

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Men Appreciate Like Much Very Ben

We always see Aung San as a strong, tough woman. There are two stories running in parallel. You see the contradictions between the East and the West, and you see someone who does mundane and normal things - someone who's supposed to be a housewife - and then someone who's become important and imprisoned.

Woman Tough Strong Someone You See

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Mother Unhappy She Always Something

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

Cool Comedy Trying You Look Go

I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

Pleasure High Hold Songs Performing

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

End Values Traveled Similarities He

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

People Go Human Evidence See Own

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

You Discovery Experiment Expect Did

What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most.

Love Best I Am Me Skating Something

My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.

Life Work Children Me My Life You

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