After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
From Lee Konitz
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
A first love always occupies a special place.
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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