Gerry Mulligan

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

I've appeared on some other people's albums.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.