His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, — Gunther Schuller
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians — Gunther Schuller
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? — Gunther Schuller
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional — Gunther Schuller
I don’t hate work, composing is not work for me, it’s my pleasure; it’s my life. So why should I stop? — Gunther Schuller
I would like to read some books: I don’t have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these — Gunther Schuller
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past — Gunther Schuller
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to new york because — Gunther Schuller
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances — Gunther Schuller
So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I’m no millionaire! — Gunther Schuller
