Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
If I could have done anything more, it would have been less
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.