Because Quote by Gunther Schuller

“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 a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.”

Gunther Schuller

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So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in…

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My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,…

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I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

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My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

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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.…

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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…

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Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

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