27 Quotes by Gerry Mulligan
- So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
- If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
- I've appeared on some other people's albums.
- I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
- I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
- I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
- Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
- Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
- Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
- When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
- 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.
- The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
- In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
- When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
- You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
- The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
- The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.
- The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
- The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
- It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
- Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
- New York is still where I live most of the time.
- Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
- Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
- People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
- 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.
- In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
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