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

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

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

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

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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.