Top 29 Quotes by Gerry Mulligan

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

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

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time.

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

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.