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.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
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I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.
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One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?
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I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
