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

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

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

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

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

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.