Mel Torme

There’s so many ways you can hit one note.

When the label came to me to say, ‘would you like to do another record,’ I said, ‘Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let’s do it.’ And that was pretty much it… I never stopped writing, it’s just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.

Sometimes I sound like gravel and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

It’s always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don’t know where it comes from, it’s just there and I don’t question it.

The Blues and Jazz will live forever. So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it’s never going to bug you. But here’s the secret about the guitar – it’s defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

A Jazz musician is supposed to find his voice, find his niche and do his thing.

My fans are the best in the world! They’ve grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.

Start well and end well. The middle will look after itself.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn’t be playing anything of depth.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

I’m just trying to create context for me to improve my musicianship.

A musician’s responsibility is to get as much of his art across to the public as possible.

Talent is cheap, and many talents treat themselves cheaply.