Glenn Miller Quotes

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• I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.
• I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us…
• A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
• I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings,…
• We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have…
• By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel…
• Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
• We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly…
• I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

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