Gerry Mulligan's Quotes

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

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

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

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

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.