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

- Mel Torme

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…

- Mel Torme

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

- Mel Torme

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

- Mel Torme

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…

- Mel Torme

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

- Mel Torme

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

- Mel Torme

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - ti…

- Mel Torme

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

- Mel Torme