I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

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

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.

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

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

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

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.