As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?
They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!