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Lee Konitz Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Doing Real Names Things Playing

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

Dreams Myself Words Walls Talking

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

Internet Gambling Stop Reform Laws

My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Mother Son Time Keep Going Me Know

When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.

Family Coffee Evening American Table

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

Singing Think Talking You My Own

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Michel de Montaigne

Fame Never Tranquility Bedfellows

Diana Krall I met in, I think it was Canada. She's a lovely lady. Her husband, Elvis Costello, is a great star.

Great Husband Think Lady Canada She

I want to drive down health care costs.

Health Drive Care Down Want Costs

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

Will Listen Anything Just Books

I love taking the salads I get from those crazy organic delivery places and putting them on a plate and then roasting my own lamb to put on top. I balance it well. And listen, if I'm not eating Waffle House and Taco Bell and Jack in the Box, anything will make me lose weight.

Love Balance Me Crazy Eating Lose

At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.

Cornelia Parker

Thank You Someone You Said Nice

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

Anthony Jeselnik

People Me Think Doing More See

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