Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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

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

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

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

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

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