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

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

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more 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.

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 understand the part of money in running a band.

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

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 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'