Mel Torme Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.”

“Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.”

“As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.”

“How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.”

“I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.”

“I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.”

“Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.”