Gerry Mulligan Quotes

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

Down, Start, Top

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

Writing, Fact, Playing

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan

Wit, Melody, Ultimately

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

Means, Worked, Players

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

Playing, Hear, Guys

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
Gerry Mulligan

Around, Mess, Electronic

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Gerry Mulligan

Same, Wanted, Top

I've appeared on some other people's albums.
Gerry Mulligan

Albums, Appeared

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

Sense, Playing, Horn

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

Started, Player, Baritone

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

Him, Play, Fact

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan

True, Rather, Band

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
Gerry Mulligan

Songs, Miles, Writes

New York is still where I live most of the time.
Gerry Mulligan

Time, Live, York

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

Through, Two, Dance

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

Great, Guess, Orchestra

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

Music, Happens, Fancy

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

Time, Understand, Talk

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Gerry Mulligan

Money, Until, While

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan

Cannot, Serve, Functions

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

Play, Reason, Mine

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

Point, Except, Orchestra

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

Success, Changed, Industry

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
Gerry Mulligan

Orchestra, Russian, Composers

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan

Jobs, Played, Wherever

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 6, 1927

Died: January 20, 1996

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