“I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires...” — Lee Konitz Quote

“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.”

“As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.”

“I wish that person outside would stop coughing.”

“If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.”

“We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.”

“I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.”