Quotes from Gerry Mulligan

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've appeared on some other people's albums.