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

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.

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

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

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

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.

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