You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.Gunther Schuller
As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
Gunther Schuller
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Gunther Schuller
I heard great music in my mother's womb and my father was in the New York Philharmonic so I was taken to concerts and of course I heard him practice.
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I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
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But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
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