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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

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

You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

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

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