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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…

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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…
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…
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of…
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…
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…
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things…
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became…
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you…
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may…

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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… — Gunther Schuller
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Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each… — Thomas Merton
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. — Norman McLaren
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite… — Leo Tolstoy
Nothing quite new is perfect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. — E E Cummings
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.… — E E Cummings
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke

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