'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.

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

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

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

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.