I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Art Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If… — Gunther Schuller Composing Copy Share Image
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. — Gunther Schuller Improvising Copy Share Image
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things… — Gunther Schuller Alone Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles… — Gunther Schuller Childhood Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the… — Gunther Schuller Avant garde Copy Share Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were… — Gunther Schuller All kinds Copy Share Image
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller Book Copy Share Image
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. — Gunther Schuller Age Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Bars Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do… — Gunther Schuller Heaven or hell Copy Share Image
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me. — Gunther Schuller Because Copy Share Image
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of… — Gunther Schuller Anchors Copy Share Image
As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do. — Gunther Schuller Health Copy Share Image
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you… — Gunther Schuller Because Copy Share Image
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their… — Gunther Schuller All things Copy Share Image
If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from now, where all the musics of the worlds would be… — Gunther Schuller Communicate Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that… — Gunther Schuller Age Copy Share Image
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the… — Gunther Schuller Exciting Copy Share Image
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's… — Gunther Schuller Parenting Copy Share Image
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may… — Gunther Schuller Born Copy Share Image
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller Bass Copy Share Image
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more. — Gunther Schuller Live music Copy Share Image
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became… — Gunther Schuller Alone Copy Share Image
