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.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.

You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.