Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

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

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

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.