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.

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 that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

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