1.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Gerry Mulligan
2.
I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Gerry Mulligan
3.
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan
4.
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan
5.
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it
Gerry Mulligan
6.
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
Gerry Mulligan
7.
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing
Gerry Mulligan
8.
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone
Gerry Mulligan
9.
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear
Gerry Mulligan
10.
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
11.
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Gerry Mulligan
12.
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Gerry Mulligan
13.
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra
Gerry Mulligan
14.
When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.
Gerry Mulligan
15.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan
16.
New York is still where I live most of the time.
Gerry Mulligan
17.
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
18.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra
Gerry Mulligan
19.
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan
20.
I've appeared on some other people's albums.
Gerry Mulligan
21.
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan
22.
Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.
Gerry Mulligan
23.
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
24.
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
Gerry Mulligan
25.
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing
Gerry Mulligan
26.
If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Gerry Mulligan
27.
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy
Gerry Mulligan
28.
Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.
Gerry Mulligan
29.
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
30.
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
Gerry Mulligan
31.
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins
Gerry Mulligan
32.
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field
Gerry Mulligan
33.
I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
Gerry Mulligan
34.
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.
Gerry Mulligan
