Gerry Mulligan

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

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

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

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

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This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

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

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

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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.

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Quotes by Gerry Mulligan