40 Quotes by Glenn Miller

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

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 and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.

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 to our people.

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 been here a couple of years.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

The infrastructure is being built with the development in mind.

The trouble is discernment. How do you know what's reliable and real and what's not? And who can help teach you that? That's one of the roles librarians have faced and embraced. Before, it was discernment about books in collections. Now, it's online databases and resources.

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 been here a couple of years.

I haven’t a great Jazz band and I don’t want one.