A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

My religion lies in my composition.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.