“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. Our band stresses harmony.”

(Glenn Miller, trombonista, compositore e direttore d'orchestra; Clarinda, 1º marzo 1904 – Canale della Manica, 15 dicembre 1944)