64 Quotes by Gerry Mulligan

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

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

New York is still where I live most of the time.

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

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

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

And the other thing we do: we periodically have softball games with the band, because they're all baseball nuts that helps to keep the spirit alive.

But it's been kind of a sequence of events you know those sorts of things: you meet people and things happen, without thinking about it.