Frank Morgan Quotations

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

Some analysts seemed to think the company would have an upside surprise, ... But they reported right in line with what the consensus was.

Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

That would be the easy conclusion to draw, but I don't know that's the fact.

While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads.

The good news is that with this they've cleared the plate of most of their legal issues and can now focus on operations.

Sometimes insiders get it right, and sometimes they don't,

Art and I played more when we were in San Quentin together than when we were on the outside. We had a great band there with Frank Butler, Dupree Bolton, Nathaniel Meeks and some guys who learned how to play while they were in prison.

They're at a point where they have to find the (capital spending) dollars to remain competitive.

The company is suffering from a combination of industry issues of weaker volume and high levels of bad debt, aggravated by weak cash flow.