39 Quotes by Mel Torme

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

There are musicians in my business who are very dour people, who are angry for one reason or another, who are malcontents or whatever.

Whereas a musician is luckier; a lot of times, the reflection of what he is as a human being is not even remotely carried through in what he plays.

I don't want to compete with - I want to be very careful how I say this - the majority of amateurs who weekly break into the business.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.