I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

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

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of 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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.