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.

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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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Song, Writing, Play

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

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Player, Way, Mulligans

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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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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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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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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

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Mulligans, Baritones, Function

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

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Orchestra, Saxophone, Solo

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

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Listening, Firsts, Saxophone

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

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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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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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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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I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

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Guy, Other Guys, Mulligans

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Born: April 6, 1927
Died: January 20, 1996
Occupation: Saxophonist
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