If I could have done anything more, it would have been less.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now..

People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under th….

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks..

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less..

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music..

I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear….

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'B….

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't underst….