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?

The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz 1930-1945. "The Compleat Conductor" Oxford University Press 1998. Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty.

Gunther Schuller (born November 22 1925) is an American composer conductor horn player author historian and jazz musician.