As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. - Gunther Schuller
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
- Gunther Schuller
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical perio… - Gunther Schuller
I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical perio…
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quit… - Gunther Schuller
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quit…
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because w… - Gunther Schuller
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because w…
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more. - Gunther Schuller
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly… - Gunther Schuller
I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly…
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fi… - Gunther Schuller
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fi…
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and r… - Gunther Schuller
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and r…
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. - Gunther Schuller
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
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