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

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.

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 know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

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

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