"I would like to read some books: I……" — Gunther Schuller
"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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Gunther Schuller
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15 Quotes by Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I…
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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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More Autobiography Quotes
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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