"I don't hate work, composing is not work……" — Gunther Schuller
"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 and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?"
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Gunther Schuller
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15 Quotes by Gunther Schuller
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His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing…
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As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
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After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians,…
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So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the…
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As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
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Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
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The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young…
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So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put…
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But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly…
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Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships…
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And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways…
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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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