Gerry Mulligan Quotes

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• What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Jazz, Jazz Music

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• Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Wit, Melody

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• It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Band, Way, Jazz

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• You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

  Gerry Mulligan

  Saxophone, Mulligans, Electric

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• So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Baritones, Saved

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• Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Song, Writing, Play

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• The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Play, Symphony, Starting Over

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• Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Mouths, Jazz

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• In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Player, Way, Mulligans

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• This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

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  Hard Life, Bears, Mulligans

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• I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Devices, Mess

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• People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

  Gerry Mulligan

  People, Innovation, Use

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• You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Tubas, Way, Trumpets

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• Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mean, Player, Piano

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• When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

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  Listening, Firsts, Saxophone

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• People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

  Gerry Mulligan

  People, Levels, Fancy

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• Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Player, Thinking, Firsts

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• Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Writing, Years, Facts

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• New York is still where I live most of the time.

  Gerry Mulligan

  New York, Mulligans, Stills

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• When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Scene

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• The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

  Gerry Mulligan

  Fields, Incredibles, Mulligans

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• A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

  Gerry Mulligan

  Player, Musician, Records

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• The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mulligans, Baritones, Function

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• The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

  Gerry Mulligan

  Orchestra, Saxophone, Solo

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• Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Jobs, Mulligans, Tenors

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