Quote

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

Gunther Schuller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gunther Schuller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 22
Died: 2015
Died: June 21
Composer
Conductor
Horn Player
Jazz Musician
Music Pedagogue
Musicologist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Jazz
Player
Around
Better
Good
Drummer
Bass
Mess

More quotes by Gunther Schuller

Image
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Gunther Schuller
Image
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
Gunther Schuller
Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
Gunther Schuller
Image
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
Gunther Schuller
Image
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.
Gunther Schuller
Image
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.
Gunther Schuller
Image
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? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
Gunther Schuller