Lee Konitz Quotes

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.

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Vision

• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Work
  • Love
  • Genius

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Star

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Men
  • Art

• Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Long
  • Memory
  • Apple

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Positive
  • New
  • Year

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

  

  Chris Burke

• I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

  

  Carrot Top
  • College
  • Wall
  • Laughing

• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • True
  • Song
  • Car

• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Prayer

• 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
  • Night
  • Car