I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.