Gerry Mulligan Quotes

• 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.

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  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.

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  Band, Way, Jazz

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

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  Canción, escritura, juego

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

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  Saxophone, Mulligans, Electric

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

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  Mulligans, Baritones, Saved

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

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  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.

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  Music, Mouths, Jazz

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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.

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  Mulligans, Devices, Mess

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

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  Player, Way, Mulligans

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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

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  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.

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  Tubas, Way, Trumpets

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

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  Mean, Player, Piano

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• Cuando empecé a escuchar saxofones, lo primero que me atrajo fue Coleman Hawkins.

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  Listening, Firsts, Saxophone

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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.

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  Player, Thinking, Firsts

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

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  Writing, Years, Facts

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

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  Fields, Incredibles, Mulligans

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

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  Player, Musician, Records

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

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  Mulligans, Baritones, Function

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• Los otros saxofones, excepto como instrumentos solistas, realmente no tienen mucho sentido en la orquesta

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  Orchestra, Saxophone, Solo

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• Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

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  Use, Orchestra, Mulligans

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• I would think, of all the saxophones, the baritone would be the most logical instrument if anybody was adding a voice to the symphony orchestra.

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  Thinking, Voice, Symphony

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  If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Horny, Ensemble, Want

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

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  People, Levels, Fancy

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