Everybody keeps calling me difficult like I didn't spend a career turning rehearsal mistakes into hit records. by Benny Goodman

You called it discipline, Benny, I called it getting lectured by a man with a clarinet and a stopwatch.

At least you let me play loud enough to be heard, which was brave for a guy whose whole personality was 'do it again'.

Fine, but the real King of Swing would at least clap on the right beat.

He didn't lead a band, he hosted a very tense audition with applause.

I made both of you sound expensive, and that is not a complaint, that is the bill.

The bill was always emotional, though.

If the crowd could hear the arguments, that means the arrangement was working.