To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

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

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

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