Gunther Schuller Quotes

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such…
• As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
• After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this…
• So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building…
• As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
• 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 something is pleasurable…
• Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
• The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on…
• So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New…
• But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the…
• Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with…
• And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so…
• I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
• That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of…
• You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with…

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