An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

If I could have done anything more, it 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.

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?

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.