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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
Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.
— Gerry Mulligan
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.
— Gerry Mulligan
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
— Gerry Mulligan
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
— Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
— Carla Bley
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
— Gerry Mulligan
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
A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
— Gerry Mulligan
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
— Gerry Mulligan
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
— Gerry Mulligan
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.
— Gerry Mulligan
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
— Gerry Mulligan
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
— Gerry Mulligan
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
— Gerry Mulligan
New York is still where I live most of the time.
— Gerry Mulligan
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
— Gerry Mulligan
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
— Gerry Mulligan
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.
— Gerry Mulligan
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
— Gerry Mulligan
I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
— Gerry Mulligan
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
— Gerry Mulligan
I've appeared on some other people's albums.
— Gerry Mulligan
