“I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it'...” — Gunther Schuller Quote

“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?”

“After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.”

“So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.”

“I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.”

“I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.”

“I'm trying to focus on my job. I don't think that being famous is a job. My job is composing, singing, performing, but not being a star.”