#th

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#facility #i #kind #same #shouting

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#available #awareness #bird #fact #first

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#attracted #band #been #i #jazz

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. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dance #evolutions #gone #instance #instrumentation

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#approaching #electronic #fancy #happens #levels

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

— Gerry Mulligan

#instruments #much #orchestra #other #point

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#because #behavioural #bunch #conclusion #got

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#carolina #columbia #considered #could #dynamite

To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit. ↗

— Andy Murray

#fruit #honest #i #i think #pathetic

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded. ↗

— Bernard Werber

#company #each #ever #found #just