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.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.