Gerry Mulligan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.”

“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.”

“New York is still where I live most of the time.”

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

“So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.”

“When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.”

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

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

“I've appeared on some other people's albums.”