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

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.

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

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.

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

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.