Gerry Mulligan Mulligans Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

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

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

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

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