#cian

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. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#classical #fusion #had #hold #jazz

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop

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. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#always #answers #best #course #done

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#also #always #companies #did #evil

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#i #less #like #more #musician

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#been #country #new #nothing #nothing new

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#because #elections #every #fair #finance

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#being #biggest #biggest problem #california #for the people

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#lousy #make #politician