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Top 20 Mel Torme Quotes (2025 Update)

Mel Torme Quote: “Talking money is crass; so I’m not going to tell you what I made last year.”

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

Mel Torme Quote: “To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.”

2. “To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.”

Mel Torme Quote: “Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”

3. “Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”

Mel Torme Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he’s a genius, and that’s all there is to it.”

5. “Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he’s a genius, and that’s all there is to it.”

Mel Torme Quote: “See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.”

6. “See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.”

Mel Torme Quote: “I’m going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.”

7. “I’m going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.”

Mel Torme Quote: “I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.”

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

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

9. “Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.”

Mel Torme Quote: “It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article – I’ve written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.”

10. “It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article – I’ve written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.”

Mel Torme Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Mel Torme Quote: “I would be a liar if I said it wouldn’t be lovely and soothing – that’s the word – to have a hit single or a hit album.”

12. “I would be a liar if I said it wouldn’t be lovely and soothing – that’s the word – to have a hit single or a hit album.”

Mel Torme Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.”

14. “Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.”

Mel Torme Quote: “As regards my feelings about drummers – there’s Buddy Rich, and then there’s everybody else.”

15. “As regards my feelings about drummers – there’s Buddy Rich, and then there’s everybody else.”

Mel Torme Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Mel Torme Quote: “My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.”

17. “My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.”

Mel Torme Quote: “Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.”

18. “Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.”

Mel Torme Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

Mel Torme Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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

21. “But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.”

Mel Torme Quote: “As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.”

22. “As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.”

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

23. “I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.”

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