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I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!
Jerome Richardson

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
Eric Allin Cornell

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

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

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

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

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