Glenn Miller Biography

"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." ...written to George Simon from England in 1944

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

“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 coloured bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.” ...1940

"It's been a big week for our side. Over on the beaches of Normandy our boys have fired the opening guns of the long awaited drive to liberate the world." ...during a radio broadcast of "I Sustain the Wings" on June 10, 1944

"As long as [the Miller Luck] stays with us, we have nothing to worry about." ...to band manager Lt. Don Haynes, after the band narrowly missed being hit by a buzz bomb.