"Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style."

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Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

Gunther Schuller

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“The references you do not verify are the good ones.”
“I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.”
“Ask your angel to console and assist you in your last moments.”
“I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...”
“Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.”
“The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.”
“I should have written books instead of reading them.”
“There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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