Quotes by Gerry Mulligan - Page 1

I've appeared on some other people's albums.
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Albums
People
Appeared
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In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Mulligans
Player
Way
Baritone
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New York is still where I live most of the time.
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New York
Mulligans
Stills
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Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Miles
Play
Song
Writing
Davis
Plays
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When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.
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Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Jobs
Mulligans
Tenors
Alto
Tenor
Wherever
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I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Devices
Fascinated
Mess
Mulligans
Electronic
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If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Ensemble
Horny
Want
Horn
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So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Baritones
Mulligans
Saved
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You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it
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Electric
Mulligans
Saxophone
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When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins
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Firsts
Listening
Saxophone
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
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Melody
Mulligans
Wit
Ultimately
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You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.
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Electric
Saxophone
Organ
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So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Saved
Alto
Baritone
Quite A While
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When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
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Began
Coleman
Hawkins
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Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Facts
Writing
Years
Recent
Recent Years
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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Baritones
Function
Mulligans
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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Alto
Baritone
Functions
Orchestral
Serve
Tenor
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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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Mulligans
Orchestra
Use
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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Orchestra
Alto
French
Extent
Great Extent
Tenor
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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 / Saxophonist
Music
Jazz
Jazz Music
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Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Mean
Piano
Player
Closer
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I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Facility
Kind
Mulligans
Shouting
Trumpets
Trumpet
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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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Bears
Hard Life
Mulligans
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The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Concerts
Play
Starting Over
Symphony
Piece
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The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Fields
Incredibles
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
Transient
Life Human Human Being
Bear
Human
Gotten
Human Being
Point
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The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.
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Enjoying
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I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Guy
Mulligans
Other Guys
Attracts
Melodic
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A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
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Musician
Player
Records
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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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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
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Instruments
Orchestra
Solo
Except
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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 / Saxophonist
Band
Jazz
Jazz Band
Way
Attracted
Orchestral
Rather
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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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Fancy
Levels
People
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People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Fancy
Levels
Although
Approaching
Electronic
Tickle
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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 / Saxophonist
Music
Jazz
Mouths
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When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Currents
Individualism
Writing
Current
Italy
Tour
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The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
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Kind
Orchestra
Symphony
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The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
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Orchestra
Symphony
Composers
Dynamic
Rhythmic
Symphony Orchestra
Tricked
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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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Firsts
Player
Thinking
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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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Symphony
Thinking
Voice
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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 / Saxophonist
Trumpets
Tubas
Way
Scale
Colours
Trumpet
Low
Match
Till
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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 / Saxophonist
Innovation
People
Use
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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 / Saxophonist
Instruments
Nonsense
Time People Talk
Innovations
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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
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Three
Twenties
Two
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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.
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Dance
Band
Instance
Instrumentation
Jazz
Jazz Band
Tradition
Twenties
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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.
Gerry Mulligan / Saxophonist
Available
Bird
Heard
Accidental
In Fact
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