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Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
Eric Allin Cornell
I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!
Jerome Richardson
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan
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Jerome Richardson 
Eric Allin Cornell 
Gavin Bryars All Alto Quotes
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
Gerry Mulligan 
59% of people like this quote
I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!
Jerome Richardson
50% of people like this quote
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars
50% of people like this quote
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
Gerry Mulligan
49% of people like this quote
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Gerry Mulligan
47% of people like this quote
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
Gerry Mulligan
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