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Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz
Work
Jazz
Vocabulary
Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Lee Konitz
Formula
Name
Play
Right
Trying
Want
It's very demanding to make up your own music.
Lee Konitz
Music
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz
Music
Ego
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
Lee Konitz
Play
Result
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Lee Konitz
Names