“I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.” ArtWantedArtistInterestingMusicalPainterWorks Of ArtAssociates Author:Gunther Schuller
“I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.” AgeWantedArtistClearInformationMusicianAnd LoveMusicalKnowledge And Information Author:Gunther Schuller
“I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.” YearsPeriodsExcitingMusicalOperaPrincipalOrchestraHornsGreat MusicMetropolitanYear One Author:Gunther Schuller
“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.” ThinkingWorldWayInspirationFormLinesColorPureDirectLogicOvercomingJazzMusicalObviousSurfacePracticalsBarsReactionsDespiteLimitationConventionalTimingChordsSubtletySaxophoneConventional Ways Author:Gunther Schuller
