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By Glenn Miller:
"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 colored 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
About Glenn Miller:
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It got to where Pop and I used to wonder if he'd ever amount to anything." ...Miller's
mother, about time he spent playing his horn
"Major Miller, through excellent judgment and professional skill, conspicuously
blended the abilities of the outstanding musicians, comprising the group, into
a harmonious orchestra whose noteworthy contribution to the morale of the armed
forces has been little less than sensational." ...from
Miller's Bronze Star Medal citation
"
He had a good sense of humor, he was a very fine musician, he was a good businessman
. . . he was athletically oriented, and he was a super patriot." ...Paul
Tanner, a trombonist in Miller's orchestra
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