"Well, because music is my life and music…" — Gunther Schuller

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

— Gunther Schuller

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15 Quotes by Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing…
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,…
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the…
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…
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young…
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put…
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly…
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships…
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways…
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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