Mel Torme Quotes

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience. - Mel Torme

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

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. - Mel Torme

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. - Mel Torme

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. - Mel Torme

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. - Mel Torme

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

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. - Mel Torme

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else. - Mel Torme

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