"That was more or less coincidental in the……" — Gunther Schuller
"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 musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera."
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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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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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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