Glenn Miller Quotes

[The saxophone sound] was always intended to be an all-around combination; but when we do play a swing number, we expect and try to make it swing as much as possible. - View Quote Details on [The saxophone sound] was always intended to be an all-around…
I haven’t [got] a great jazz band and I don’t want one… A dozen colored bands have a beat better than mine. - View Quote Details on I haven’t [got] a great jazz band and I don’t…
There is no rest, there must be no rest for a fellow when he is successful. He has got to keep right on going… And don’t think that I am the product of luck or breaks or anything like that. I have worked hard ever since I came out of the University of Colorado. I have played the trombone in so many bands, I can’t count them all. - View Quote Details on There is no rest, there must be no rest for…
A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. - View Quote Details on A band ought to have a sound all of its…