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

You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

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.

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.

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