Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true ….

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I….

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album..

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements..

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on eithe….

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience..

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the ….

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else..

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys..

I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appre….

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an al….

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of th….

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the ag….

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio..

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year..

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money..

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America..

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in..

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with….

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace..

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer..