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

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

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

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

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

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 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.