Gunther Schuller's Profile
Brief about Gunther Schuller: By info that we know Gunther Schuller was born at 1925-11-22. And also Gunther Schuller is American Composer.
Some Gunther Schuller's quotes. Goto "Gunther Schuller's quotation" section for more.I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
Tags: Read, Time, WorkingAfter 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.
Tags: After, Revolution, WarAnd 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.
Tags: Hurt, May, SocietyBecause I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
Tags: Develop, Involved, WhateverBut somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
Tags: Alone, Felt, UntilI don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
Tags: Hate, Life, WorkSo now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
Tags: Alone, Mean, TogetherSo this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
Tags: Building, Past, RepeatingThat was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
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