I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

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

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.

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

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

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